nuclear
Nuclear dangers of the naval kind
Southasia needs to pay attention to the increased risk of a nuclearised ocean
Zia Mian M V Ramana and A H Nayyar | Oct 28, 2019
Himal Interviews: The Abdus Salam story
Podcast with Zakir Thaver, the co-producer of 'Salam', a documentary on the Pakistani physicist.
The Editors | Jan 07, 2019
The doctrine of the nuclear sword
Nuclear weapons and the militarist psychology in India and Pakistan.
M V Ramana and Zia Mian | Sep 20, 2014
The wrong formula
India’s National Science Day highlights the deep malaise in state-sponsored science awareness programmes.
Garga Chatterjee | Mar 26, 2012
India’s ‘stage three’ fantasy
If some had thought nuclear power would provide ‘clean energy’ to fuel India’s energy demand, it does not look like India’s nuclear industry is up to the task.
Rahul Goswami | Oct 01, 2009
Nuclearism, genocidal mentality and psychic numbing
On the psychopathology of the nuclear-arms race.
Ashis Nandy | Jul 01, 1998
Latest Articles
India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
Disillusioned with the Taliban, Pakistan reverses its four-decade Afghan policy
As Kabul refuses to act against the TTP and Baloch militant groups, Pakistan is ending the support it has extended to the Taliban since 1994 and its welcome to refugees from Afghanistan since the 1980s
The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa
‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality
Interview: The precarity of Afghan migrants in Pakistan
Political scientist and author Sanaa Alimia speaks of the long history of racial profiling, harassment and deportation of Afghan migrants, in the context of Pakistan’s recent crackdown
