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July 27, 2009
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 COUNTERPOINT
HARSH V. PANT
What Have Nukes Got To Do With It?
The fact that even a crackpot dictator like King Jong-Il thinks that there is
some value in going nuclear should make us re-assess Kanti
Bajpai's arguments.
Web | Oct 18, 2006
 NUCLEAR BOMB
KANTI BAJPAI
Fission And No Fizz
N-power status put India back a notch on all counts. What saved us from the hole: the economy.
Magazine | Oct 16, 2006
 WHAT IF....
N. RAM
What If India Hadn't Gone Nuclear?
Would Pakistan have still gone nuclear? Would Kargil have happened? Would there be an active campaign against nuclear weapons at work in South Asia?
Magazine | Aug 23, 2004
NUKES
Virility Unstuck
Not only have India's superpower dreams remained unfulfilled, most experts find South Asia unstable now
V. SUDARSHAN
Magazine | May 19, 2003
 OPINION/NUKES
K. SANTHANAM
The Quantum Leap
Our politically correct, slow nuclearisation picked up in '98 -- and for the better
Magazine | May 19, 2003
 OPINION
M.V. RAMANA
Looking Back At Pokhran II
May 11 and 13 mark the fourth anniversary of the 1998 Pokharan nuclear tests -- a re-appraisal of what was achieved by those tests.
Web | May 13, 2002
 POKHRAN 1998
Countdown In South Asia: The Interviews
On the fourth anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran tests: unabdridged notes and transcriptions from a series of interviews by Amitav Ghosh that went on to become the seminal book Countdown.
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
ASMA JAHANGIR
'Pakistan Should Have Taken The Moral High Ground'
Lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir, Lahore, August 29, 1998
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
K.G. SUBRAHMANIAM
'A Million Pound Note'
K.G. Subrahmaniam, former Director, Indian Institute of Strategic Studies; New Delhi, argues that a nuclear weapon, like a million pound note, is of apparently no use -- you can't stop small wars -- but it gets you credit and that gives you power to intimidate.
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
PRAFUL BIDWAI
'The Indian Argument Was Opportunist'
Praful Bidwai, journalist and nuclear expert, 18th August 1998 -- on NPT, CTBT and the security hazards
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
CHANDAN MITRA
'Explosion Of Self Esteem'
Chandan Mitra, Editor, The Pioneer, a consistent supporter of the bomb, feels that a furore both within the country and outside was caused perhaps because it was a BJP government which exploded the bomb.
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
GENERAL V.P. MALIK
'Political, Not Military, Weapons'
General V.P. Malik, then Chief of Army Staff, argues that from the professional point of view there is no chance of the possibility of a nuclear conflict
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
GEORGE FERNANDES
'I Went Through Deep Anguish'
George Fernandes, Defence Minister, says that the explosions were mainly a deterrent and that there will not be any more tests and that India would adhere to a no first-use policy .
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
 INTERVIEW
KANTI BAJPAI
The Pralay Mythology
Tracing it back to Nehru, Kanti Bajpai, while not being entirely dismissive of the arguments of the defence strategists and experts, argues that none of these stand up to close scrutiny.
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2002
JAPAN VISIT
It Isn't Easy, Breaking The Diet
Vajpayee's visit helps defrost relations. Yet, geopolitical equations remain tentative and trade an untapped area.
PAYAL KAPADIA
Magazine | Dec 24, 2001
US SANCTIONS
The Lasso Loosens
The post-Pokhran US sanctions are getting redundant with increasing Indo-US bonhomie
V. SUDARSHAN
Magazine | Aug 27, 2001
REVIEW
A Million Shadows
The N-word, as seen by scientists, polemicists, idealists and realists
Raja Menon on Out Of The Nuclear Shadow by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian
Magazine | Aug 27, 2001
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPTS
Countdown
"The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the subcontinent is the moral equivalent of civil war: the targets the rulers have in mind for these weapons are, in the end, none other than their own people."
AMITAV GHOSH
Web | May 11, 2001
DOSSIER
Pokhran '98: A Flashback
It is now three years since Pokhran II. Was it The End of The Imagination or was the bomb the global currency of self-esteem, a Million Pound Note -- apparently of no use, but a minting of false coin in the hope of purchasing worldwide influence? A collection of old articles that includes writers such as Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Ruchir Joshi, Vinod Mehta and many more ...
Web | May 11, 2001
DETOUR
Pokaran: Sleeping With The Bomb
Even Pokhran, the name the world knows it by, is not its own.
SOUTIK BISWAS
Magazine | Jan 08, 2001
DEFENCE
Mock Fights
And Boy Scouts
IDSA is in self-destruct mode. Infighting, plain incompetence and an
autocratic boss kills India’s premier defence think tank.
V. SUDARSHAN
Magazine | Nov 13, 2000
REVIEW
Doves Versus Hawks
Mixed opinions from an overflowing nuclear cauldron
A.S. Panneerselvan on Nuclear India Into The New Millennium by Anindyo J. Majumdar
Magazine | Nov 06, 2000
INDO-US TRADE
For A Few $$$ More
It’s sop upon sop for US business as the PMO bends over backwards on the eve of Vajpayee’s trip
BHAVDEEP KANG
Magazine | Sep 11, 2000
INDO-JAPANESE TIES
Infobahn To Tokyo
Tokyo still wants India to sign the CTBT, but is willing to extend aid and explore partnerships in IT
RAMANANDA SENGUPTA
Magazine | Sep 04, 2000
OPINION
RAJA MENON
These Talks Can't Wait
Diplomacy can't shirk its onus. India, Pakistan must delink nuclear dialogue from the stalemate on the broad political front.
Magazine | Aug 07, 2000
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