Arms Control in Retreat: How Populism and Great Power Politics Are Rewriting Global Disarmament Norms
The global arms race initiated in the pre-world war I era, dragged the world into the catastrophic world wars. The...
Arms Control and Disarmament
Role of incentives in Denuclearization: A Comparative Analysis of Iran and North Korea
Abstract: This research contributes innovatively in ascertaining why identical denuclearization incentives were successfully used in Iran in a temporary context...
Oxford India Short Introductions: Indian Nuclear Policy
The Oxford Introduction to India: Indian Nuclear Policy, by Harsh V. Pant and Yogesh Joshi, consist of five chapters, each...
ICBM Accusations: Unpacking the US Motive
Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi write in their recent Foreign Affairs article How to Survive the Nuclear Age, "U.S. intelligence...
Global Double Standards: NPT’s Credibility on Trial
In today’s unstable world, NPT is one legal framework that has remained fragile yet vital barrier against unchecked nuclear weapons...
Regional Arms Control at Risk: The K-4 Missile and Its Escalating Impact on South Asia
The K-4, also known as Kalam-4, is an intermediate-range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) developed by India's Defense Research and Development...
Revisiting India’s Pokhran-II Nuclear Tests of 1998: Reality Beyond the Rhetoric
India’s May 1998 Pokhran-II nuclear tests, though hailed domestically as a bold assertion of strategic autonomy and nuclear prowess, undeniably...
Tehran’s Tipping Point: Pezeshkian’s Reformist Vision in Nuclear Negotiations
Iran is looking different with the change in command at the highest level, although the Supreme Leader is the ultimate...
Alarming Increase in Stockpile of India’s Nuclear Weapons: Regional and Global Implications
According to the 2023 and 2024 yearbooks of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the estimated inventory of India’s nuclear...
China’s nuclear buildup: Navigating Geopolitical drivers and the future of arms control
The new cold war between the U.S, Russia, and China has divided the world into East and West. Russia and...