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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicNuclear test

Topic: Nuclear test

US to resume nuclear testing—what are India’s choices?

All options are costly and risky. But not making a decision now could further limit India’s choices in the future.

Trump orders to resume nuclear weapons testing. What it means

Daryl Kimball, Executive Director of Arms Control Association and a self-proclaimed expert on nuclear non-proliferation, said Trump was “misinformed and out of touch”.

R Chidambaram compared nuclear option to marriage option. They cannot be open-ended

It was clear to Rajagopala Chidambaram that India needed time and could not go along with the Geneva negotiations in 1996. Accordingly, India withdrew.

Rajagopala Chidambaram: Physicist who played key role in India’s bid to secure nuclear state tag

Colleagues, friends recall his contributions to field of nuclear physics & Pokhran nuclear tests. Rajagopala Chidambaram died Saturday at a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 88.

Mountain in the molehill

There are several reasons why even people who would not normally lie do not like to speak the truth. One of these is that the truth usually is a terrible enemy of conspiracy theorists.

What’s the nuclear test ban treaty & what happens now that Russia’s revoked its ratification

New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Thursday revoking Moscow’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty (CTBT) — adopted by the United Nations...

25 years since ‘White House’ collapsed and India became a nuclear weapons state

Despite having blasted itself into the small clique of nations having advanced nuclear weapons, India continues to be a supporter of global nuclear disarmament.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.