Nuke Street by Sheel kant Sharma
  • Iran, North Korea, and Disarmament: Some Questions
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    03 Jul, 2018   ·    5489
    These recent weeks have shown extraordinary results in the Korean Peninsula. There is an interesting ring in President Trump announcing that DPRK was ...
  • Winter Olympics in the Nuclear Shadow
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    05 Mar, 2018   ·    5441
    Mixed signals have come from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics but they are once again wrapped in fierce and heightened rhetoric; from Washington, about the dire consequences of North Korean defiance in word and deed, and Pyongyong calling sa ...
  • A Global Nuclear Order in Crisis
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    22 Jan, 2018   ·    5422
    The year 2017 saw the iconic clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists slide to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. It is set closer than ever to the brink except in 1952 when US-Soviet hydrogen bomb tests within six months of each other h ...
  • Why China is Using NPT to Block India's Entry into the NSG
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    27 May, 2016   ·    5041
    There is unusual and shocking stridence in China's very vocal stand, and its timing, demanding adherence to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as the criterion for India's membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Such insistence ...
  • Forecast 2016: Fruits of Diplomacy
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    29 Jan, 2016   ·    4976
    But for the Iran nuclear accord, the year 2015 would have been a wasted year for arms control and non-proliferation. All high praise and superlatives marking Iran’s implementation of the nuclear deal with P5+1 are fully apt. Iran&rs ...
  • US-Russia and Global Nuclear Security: Under a Frosty Spell?
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    20 Nov, 2014   ·    4752
    It is twenty years since acute concern about unauthorised and malevolent access to sensitive nuclear material and radioactive substances, particularly from successor states to the former Soviet Union, roused the international community in ...
  • India's Nuclear Capable Cruise Missile: The Nirbhay Test
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    22 Oct, 2014   ·    4713
    India’s test of the nuclear capable cruise missile Nirbhay last week was immensely significant in two ways. First, it marked the culmination of DRDO’s efforts of not only the past decade but also the ambitions of its heads. It ...
  • India-Australia Nuclear Agreement: Bespeaking of a New Age
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    08 Sep, 2014   ·    4650
    The conclusion of a nuclear cooperation agreement between India and Australia last week is indeed a landmark achievement for their bilateral relations. Before leaving for his India visit, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was confiden ...
  • Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Musings on the Bomb
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    21 Aug, 2014   ·    4621
    August is the month of remembrance of the ghastly tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such remembrance is far from a mere annual routine of some ritual happenings – there is no dearth of moral, ethical, legal or humanitarian condemna ...
  • The Second Nuclear Age in the Asia Pacific
    Sheel kant Sharma   ·    09 Jun, 2014   ·    4499
    President Obama’s West Point speech in 2014 reflected a qualified fatigue with internationalist causes. The recent Chinese comment on North Korean threats about an impending test had an interesting term in cautioning its difficult b ...
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