India's nuclear weapons, in all probability, will be delivered by its Anglo-Rench Jaguar or Mirage-2000 squadrons, if not the Russian Sukhoi-30. For a similar mission, Pakistan will rely on the Fench
The US military has had authority to use nuclear weapons on its own if it cannot reach the President in an emergency during the time of Eisenhower, according to declassifed
The US department of energy will start a series of underground explosive tests on radioactive plutonium next week. Washington says the tests do not violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty but
The controversial Narmada project has again emerged as a dominant issue in Gujarat after the BJP's ascent to power at the Centre. This is likiely to pit Gujarat against Madhya Pradesh, now under the
Spurred by recent disclosures of Iraq's germ warfare capability, Britain announced a new European Union initiative to speed talks in Geneva to legally binding measures to detect and deter possession
A defector from the former Soviet biological weapons program says that Moscow's Cold War plans for World War III included preparing 'hundreds of tons' of anthrax bacteria and scores of tons of
The Wullar Lake, the largest fresh water lake of Asia, is losing its charm and beauty due to pollution and encroachments. Significant ecological changes are threatening its basic function as a
The city's perennial water shortage notwithstanding, the municipal corporation has allowed 78 fully- constructed tubewells to remain non- functional . MCD's reason: these tubewells
A United Nations report warned yesterday that Baghdad could produce as much as 200 tonnes of the deadly nerve agent VX . In two draft documents, a team of international experts also reported limited
