Nuclear Tests

Inglorious fallacies and arrogant nuclearisms: Praful Bidwai on the 1998 N-tests

Inglorious fallacies and arrogant nuclearisms: Praful Bidwai on the 1998 N-tests

Nuclear Tests, Pokhran Tests May 12, 2023 at 2:39 am 0 comments

India defiled, Indians diminished | Frontline, The Hindu – PRAFUL BIDWAI The BJP has inflicted nuclear humiliation upon the nation, while compromising India’s security and jeopardising popular welfare. MAY 11, 1998, will go down as one of the darkest days in India’s history, comparable to December 6, 1992. The threeRead More

Is the Buddha still Smiling? Lalita Ramdas’ compelling reflections on India’s 1998 nuclear tests

Is the Buddha still Smiling? Lalita Ramdas’ compelling reflections on India’s 1998 nuclear tests

Nuclear Tests, Pokhran Tests May 12, 2023 at 1:59 am 0 comments

Buddha is Smiling? Reflections on India’s Nuclear Tests | SACW Letter to my Daughters, my grandchildren – Indian, Pakistani, American from an anguished woman, wife, mother, grandmother, educator! – Lalita Ramdas May 12, 1998 It was an incredibly magnificent full moon night – Buddha Purnima, May 11 1998 – andRead More

The End Of Imagination: Revisiting Arundhati Roy’s seminal essay 25 years since Pokhran and Chagai

The End Of Imagination: Revisiting Arundhati Roy’s seminal essay 25 years since Pokhran and Chagai

The End Of Imagination | Outlook Magazine “My world has died. I write to mourn its passing.” – Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy on India’s Nuclear Bomb. “The desert shook,” the Government of India informed us (its people). “The whole mountain turned white,” the Government of Pakistan replied. “By afternoonRead More

In Tahiti, traditional priest Raymond Graffe inaugurates a memorial to nuclear survivors in French Polynesia and across the Pacific. Nic Maclellan

“We would like France to apologise”: Nuclear test survivors in French Polynesia

Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear Tests July 28, 2020 at 3:16 am 0 comments

As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approaches, the legacy of cold war–era French nuclear testing is still in dispute