Russia and United States are upgrading their nuclear arsenals—including systems used to detect and intercept incoming nuclear-armed missiles—just as China ramps up its own nuclear capability far beyond those of Britain & France.
India is playing a very important role in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s largest nuclear fusion project that aims to produce net energy gain from fusion.
Villagers affected are tribals, some of whom were displaced by Bargi Dam in 1980s. On 8 August, a panel was formed to resolve issues, including land acquisition, related to project.
Creating an alternative chain of command is not enough to survive an initial nuclear strike and retaliate. The political command must be protected so it can effectively manage the situation.
Given India’s ambitious targets to expand its nuclear capacity, it should sign US-led declaration at COP28 to have a voice and advocate for its interests.
The crossing comes amid tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the arrival of a US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for a rare visit in a warning to North Korea.
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said that fighting close to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia NPP had caused some damage to the facility and called for an immediate inspection.
In this edition of ThePrint OffTheCuff, Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, talks to ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta...
While Russia continues to threaten NATO with its nuclear prowess, India must refrain from doing the same—Chinese aggressors might not know the meaning of restraint.
War is not a staff college exercise. Battles are messy, losses mount, and the fog of war thickens. The safeguard is not temperament at the top but resilient institutions rooted in unity of command.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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