Nuclear Disarmament

A reporter recently asked Trump if he regrets ordering a lockdown. Trump said he thought it was a mistake, and then in the very next paragraph he responded to a follow-up question saying he thought it was the right decision. We’ve all seen Trump say he supports the lockdowns, then…

Another one bites the dust. In less two years, President Donald Trump has now binned three major arms-control treaties – quite a record for undermining decades of international security architecture. First there was the nuclear accord with Iran (2018), then the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (2019), and now the Open…

SYNOPSIS : TLP 2020- UPSC Mains Answer Writing (General Studies)  1. India stands to benefit by deepening ties with France- a partner that shares its ideals of multilateralism, pluralism and a non-military, deterrence-based policy. Elucidate. (GS Paper 2, IR) Demand of the question: It expects students to write about the…

Truisms are abundant. The West is in bad shape. Relations between Europe and the United States are at an all-time low. Russia and the United States are walking away from arms control. The latest casualty came on May 21, 2020, with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Open…

The ongoing pandemic makes us obsessively aware of the precariousness of life, and if from the U.S., the mendacious incompetence of our political leadership. Yet, it also makes most of us as obsessively complacent when the threats seem remote and abstract. This complacency with respect to contagious disease greatly worsened…

The world woke up a bit less secure this morning as the global superpowers launched yet another round of nuclear poker. The Open Skies Treaty is the third major security agreement that is going to bite the dust – and it might well not be the last one. It’s 100…

A Chinese tabloid editor recently proposed that China should rapidly expand its nuclear arsenal to 1,000 weapons, so as to cope with new security threats. The suggestion stirred the pot and had broad repercussions at home and abroad. To determine whether China should expand its nuclear arsenal quickly and substantially,…

We have seen some solidarity, but very little unity in our response to COVID-19, said UN Chief. (File)Geneva: The coronavirus pandemic should serve as a "wake-up call" to the world which must be more united in responding to the crisis, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday.The secretary-general said COVID-19 was…

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The head of US intelligence and ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has said that Berlin is not honoring its commitments to its allies. Russian and Chinese aggression are not just relics of the past, he said. A day after a new report found that the US spent $35.4 billion (€32.6…