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Two Decades Since Pokhran-II Nuclear Tests: A Quick Analytical Survey

Two Decades Since Pokhran-II Nuclear Tests: A Quick Analytical Survey

Nuclear Weapons, Pokhran Tests November 22, 2020 at 8:09 pm 0 comments

Sukla Sen | The ill-advised nuclearization neither enhanced India’s security — defined in terms of the ability to eliminate/minimise external military threats, nor strategic autonomy — the ability to operate more freely on the international stage.

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk in South Asia: New SIPRI Report

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk in South Asia: New SIPRI Report

Reports April 24, 2020 at 6:25 am 0 comments

This volume assembles the perspectives of eight experts on South Asia on why and how machine learning and autonomy may become the focus of an arms race among nuclear-armed states. It further explores how the adoption of these technologies may have an impact on their calculation of strategic stability and nuclear risk at the regional and transregional levels.

Nuclear Weapons Use in South Asia: Zia Mian’s Lecture at Harvard

Nuclear Weapons Use in South Asia: Zia Mian’s Lecture at Harvard

Zia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security, co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and co-author of Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation.

Nuclear War in South Asia Could Kill Millions, Unleash Global Starvation and Climate Change: New Study

Nuclear War in South Asia Could Kill Millions, Unleash Global Starvation and Climate Change: New Study

A new research study, published in the journal Science Advances, concludes that a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan, which are currently in conflict over Kashmir and engaged in a nuclear arms race with rapidly expanding weapons stockpile and delivery systems, could instantly kill 125 million people and cause global mass starvation.

The findings must force a serious rethinking for the South Asian neighbours and the entire world.