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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBallistic nuclear missile

Topic: ballistic nuclear missile

US Cold War fixation let nuclear genie out of the bottle in Pakistan. Sanctions won’t help

Sanctions had first been imposed on the NDC in 1998 by Bill Clinton. And they were waived after 9/11 to enable counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan.

Examining trajectory that missile took: Navy chief Admiral Tripathi on K4 test

While India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) operates INS Arihant with a K-15 SLBM, its range is only 750 km. K-4 has a range of nearly 3,500 km.

India’s nuclear arsenal becomes more potent. Why the K4 submarine launched ballistic missile matters

While India could have only covered certain parts of Pakistan with K-15, K-4 enables it to have wider range covering not just whole of Pakistan but also large part of China.

US sanctions 3 Chinese firms for ‘supplying materials’ to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme 

Pakistan reportedly has 170 nuclear warheads. US State Dept claims firms were 'materially contributing to proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery’.

North Korea shows off drones, ballistic missiles at military parade for Kim Jong Un

The parade included North Korea’s latest Hwasong-17 and Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles which are believed to have range to strike targets anywhere in US.

Agni Prime–next generation nuclear missile–set to be inducted into India’s arsenal

Agni Prime can be manoeuvred at the point of entry into the earth’s atmosphere, a feature that is usually not available in a ballistic missile.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.