Strategic Space by Manpreet Sethi
Manpreet Sethi
Distinguished Fellow at CAPS
  • Early Adulthood: 22 Years of Nuclear India and Pakistan
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    26 May, 2020   ·    5692
    This month saw the 22nd anniversary of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. In May 1998, India chose to announce its nuclear weapons capability by conducting five tests on 11 and 13 May. Pakistan followed about two weeks later with si ...
  • International Solidarity for Nuclear Security: Lessons from a Pandemic
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    27 Apr, 2020   ·    5680
    In his September 2019 UN General Assembly speech, President Trump said, “The future does not belong to globalists… the future belongs to sovereign and individual nations who protect their citizens…” Less than six months later, th ...
  • Cyber-Nuclear Security Challenges: An Issue that Won’t Go Away
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    23 Mar, 2020   ·    5664
    As the world—pretty much the entire world—grapples with COVID-19, it is clear that the enormity of the pandemic will not leave any aspect of the economy untouched. Inter-state and societal interactions are also expected to feel the ...
  • Nuclear Energy: Is it In or Out?
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    20 Jan, 2020   ·    5644
    Two contrasting news on nuclear energy from two different parts of the world greeted the dawn of the new year. Germany announced the decommissioning of another of its nuclear power plants in keeping with its plan to phase out nuclear ene ...
  • Pulwama, Balakot, and the Future: How the Chips Stack Up
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    16 May, 2019   ·    5585
    For the time being, the India-Pakistan crisis triggered by the terrorist strike against the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in February in Pulwama appears to have stabilised. However, India must have no delusions that such act ...
  • Hanoi Done: Now What for Trump and Kim?
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    27 Mar, 2019   ·    5572
    The second Summit between the heads of government of the US and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) ended earlier than expected on 28 February 2019. With both countries maintaining intransigent positions on how to handle the i ...
  • In the Wake of the Pulwama Massacre: What India Should Not Do
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    22 Feb, 2019   ·    5559
    For India, 14 February, a day that should have ended with rosy pictures of a romantic sunset ended with bloody images of death and gore. Even before New Delhi could point a finger towards Pakistan, a neighbour that has long sustained a ...
  • The Abnormal Normal: Time Stands Still at Two Minutes to Midnight
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    30 Jan, 2019   ·    5550
    The Doomsday Clock, maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947, has come to symbolise a graphic description of the global security situation at any given time. Every year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulleti ...
  • Limited Use of Nuclear Weapons: Political and Military Implications
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    26 Dec, 2018   ·    5537
    Among the many things nuclear that 2018 will be remembered for, the rather cavalier statements made by leaders in the US, Russia and North Korea on the utility of nuclear weapons certainly stand out. Indeed, the US Nuclear Posture Review ...
  • Signalling with INS Arihant: Import of the Message and the Messenger
    Manpreet Sethi   ·    22 Nov, 2018   ·    5527
    The announcement on 5 November regarding the completion of the first deterrent patrol of India’s first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine (SSBN), the INS Arihant, has evoked three kinds of reactions: a euphoric one from strategic ana ...