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Strategic Space
Early Nuclear Indicators in the US’ Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
Manpreet Sethi. · 05 Apr, 2021 · #5759 · Commentary
President
Joe Biden's administration has been quick off the mark to retrieve control on
many domestic and foreign policy fronts: reining in the COVID-19 health
emergency, extending New START, reassuring allies on US commitment to extended
deterre ...
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Strategic Space
COVID-19 Mauled 2020—A Nuclear Disaster Would End Time
Manpreet Sethi. · 31 Dec, 2020 · #5749 · Commentary
2020
started on a grim note, with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists deciding
in January to move the minute hand on its clock to 100 seconds to midnight.
This was a reminder of the high level of risk that humanity faced from nuclear
issues and ...
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Strategic Space
Another Date-Change for the NPT RevCon: Fresh Opportunity to Shape its Success
Manpreet Sethi. · 25 Nov, 2020 · #5742 · Commentary
The Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) that conducts a review conference (RevCon) every five years was due to
hold one in April-May 2020. This RevCon had special significance as it was to mark
the 50th anniversary of the NPT, as also the 25th
anniver ...
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Strategic Space
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in India-China Nuclear Relations
Manpreet Sethi. · 27 Oct, 2020 · #5734 · Commentary
India-China nuclear
relations are unique and complex. China refuses to recognise India as a nuclear
weapons state (NWS), though there is no denying the reality of India’s nuclear
weapons. In fact, this has been accepted by the international comm ...
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Strategic Space
Never Again: 75 years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Manpreet Sethi. · 24 Aug, 2020 · #5714 · Commentary
This
August marks 75 years of the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These were the first two nuclear bombs built by the
US in the secret Manhattan Project; run at a frenzied pace to beat the
possibility of Germany gett ...
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Indian Nuclear Decision-Making and the Border Standoff with China
Tanvi Kulkarni.. · 14 Jul, 2020 · #5705 · Commentary
The
2020 border standoff between India and China marks a tipping point in the bilateral
relationship. It brings to an end the Indian illusion that the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) with China is a ‘disputed but peaceful’ border. As Beijing capi ...
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Pakistan’s Afghanistan Policy and a Troubled Peace Process
Dr Shalini Chawla. · 05 May, 2020 · #5684 · Commentary
While the world is engrossed in intensifying the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan’s peace
process is finding it difficult to draw the necessary time and attention from
the international community. The Taliban rejected the Afghan g ...
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The Relevance of Aslam Farooqui’s Arrest
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy. · 06 Apr, 2020 · #5674 · Commentary
On 4 April, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of
Security (NDS) announced that Aslam Farooqui, the chief of the Islamic State
‘Khorasan Province’ (ISKP) had been arrested in Kandahar, Afghanistan, along
with 19 others, including two key com ...
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East Asia Compass
US, South Korea, and Japan: Recognising the Value of Alliances
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 28 Feb, 2020 · #5653 · Commentary
On 24 February 2020, South Korean Defence Minister Jeong
Kyeong-doo met his American counterpart, Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, in
Washington. The meeting did not result in a breakthrough on the issue of
cost-sharing for US troop presence in So ...
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Research of Canadian Industry Statistics
Research of Canadian Industry Statistics
Siddharth Anil Nair. · 27 Feb, 2020 · #5651 · Commentary
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