The accession of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States is an opportune time to revisit the issue of global and regional nuclear disarmament. What are the options open to civil society?
Under-scoring the need for total elimination of nuclear weapons, Pakistan told a UN panel on Wednesday that the objective should be achieved through an equitable approach and genuine empathy for the security concerns of all states. At the same time, Ambassador Farukh Amil said.
North Korea vowed on Tuesday to restore nuclear facilities that it had been disabling and boycott international talks on its nuclear weapons program to protest against the UN Security Council
In the first of three features on the legacy of the Bush administration, Declan Butler looks at the United States' failure to deal with the risks of nuclear proliferation.
Washington: According to senior American and foreign officials, President Bush had deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialised bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran
India and Russia signed the long-pending nuclear cooperation agreement for construction of four additional nuclear reactors at Kudankulam and reactors in other new sites in India.
NEW DELHI: Pakistan President Asif Zardari said on Saturday he would work on a no-first-use (NFU) policy of nuclear weapons and assured India that his government would not interfere in Jammu and Kashmir.
This is the first time that Pakistan has advocated the policy of no-first use of nuclear weapons.
