Nuclear Abolition

Nuclear Clouds Gather Over Asia 26 December 2005
By Praful Bidwai
The US's inconsistent non-proliferation criteria could alter the strategic balance in some of the world's most volatile regions, argues Praful Bidwai. The US is currently talking tough on Iran, softening its attitude to North Korea, and treating India as a 'responsible nuclear power', whilst taking an uncertain stand on Japan's possible nuclear build-up. Bidwai predicts two new arms races in Asia - one between Japan and China, and the other between China and India.

Indian Nuclear Deal With US Turns Faustian Bargain 17 November 2005
By Praful Bidwai
Indian leaders are finding that they confront far tougher choices in implementing a controversial nuclear agreement they signed with the US than they had bargained for. The domestic consensus on the agreements seems improbable, while the opposition from Nuclear Suppliers' Group very likely, writes Bidwai.

UN Nuclear Watchdog ELBaradei Wins Nobel Peace Prize Months After U.S. Tries To Force Him From Job as Head of IAEA Phylis Bennis takes part in a debate at Democracy Now!, 7 October 2005

India's Nuclear Albatross 24 September 2005
By Praful Bidwai
New Delhi deluded itself that it scored a coup by signing the July nuclear deal with Washington. It must now confront a bitter truth: ‘normalising’ its nuclear weapons will entail erosion of its policy independence in various different fields. The crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme is the starkest example.

A Grim Nuclear Question-mark Hangs over the Planet's Future 1 May 2005
By Praful Bidwai
The second review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is currently taking place in New York, with the US mounting pressure for amendment of the NPT, such that it will no longer oblige the Nuclear Weapons States to eliminate their nuclear arsenals as currently stipulated in Article VI. If the Nuclear Weapon States, led by the US, undermine the fragile bargain at the heart of the NPT, the whole non-proliferation regime can come crashing down, writes Bidwai.

How Not to Think about Nuclear Weapons ... Or The Elephant in the Closet April 2005
By Peter Weiss
Thanks to the US adroitness at sabotaging the meeting the 2005 NPT Review Conference, which took place at the United Nations from May 2 to 27, turned out to be a total fiasco. The failure of the nuclear weapons states to agree to even some sort of beginning for nuclear disarmament is a moral and legal scandal, and the hypocrisy underlying this point needs to be driven home to the world community, writes Peter Weiss

Building a Nuclear disarmament Movement in India, Pakistan and South Asia: Some Policy Perspectives 6 February 2005
By Achin Vanaik
The best route today towards generating a greater momentum in the future against nuclear weapons is to generate an ever greater and stronger momentum of opposition to US imperial ambitions, writes Vanaik. The principal goal in South Asia of a regional disarmament movement could be the demand for a South Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone, and the first feasible step towards this goal could be to promote the idea of a NWFZ in Kashmir.

• Wilbert van der Zeijden contributed to the report: European Governments’ Official Positions on Missile Defence BASIC Occasional Paper No. 42, February 2003
• Achin Vanaik Ten Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence The Little Magazine, October 2003
• Peter Weiss The President, the Constitution and the ABM Treaty Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 5 February 2002
• Achin Vanaik Putin on the Defensive The Hindu, 29 June 2001
• Achin Vanaik "Dogging" the Footsteps of the US: the Price of Friendship Tehekla.com, 13 May 2001
• Praful Bidwai Bush's "Star Wars": India's Abject Capitulation Tehelka.com, 3 May 2001
• Praful Bidwai India Brazenly Supports Bush's "Missile Defence" ASED, 1 May 2001
• Achin Vanaik In the Name of Good Diplomacy The Hindu, 21 April 2001
• Achin Vanaik We Don't Love the Bomb The Telegraph, 1 December 2000
• Achin Vanaik On the Verge of a New Nuclear Age The Hindu, 17 June 2000
• Achin Vanaik Failing the Test: International Mismanagement of the South Asia nuclear Crisis Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 51, October 2000
• Praful Bidwai People's Conference Calls for a Nuclear-free Asia Asia Times, 26 February 2000
• Phyllis Bennis The Law of Empire: Washington Sets up the UN to Take Blame for US Failures Le Monde diplomatique, December 1999 (Unedited version)
• Achin Vanaik A Shameful Reaction The Hindu, 2 November 1999
• Praful Bidwai India-Pakistan Contemplate Testing Nukes Again? Inter Press Service, 18 March 1999
• Praful Bidwai Nuclear Rivals, India and Pakistan, Hold Key to Peace in 1999 InterPress Service, 20 December 1998
• Praful Bidwai Clutching at Nuclear Straws Frontline, 5 December 1998
• Achin Vanaik Disarmament and Restraint: A View from India The Hindu, 8 October 1998
• Praful Bidwai An Unequal Deal Frontline, 29 August 1998
• Achin Vanaik Sign the CTBT The Hindu, 29 June 1998
• Achin Vanaik Drawing New Lines The Hindu, 23 May 1998
• Achin Vanaik Nuclear Notebook: Three Misrepresentations Economic and Political Weekly, 6 September 1997
• Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik After the CTBT... India's Intentions The Bulletin for the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 53, No. 2, March-April 1997

Documents

• Statement on NMD/TMD project Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India, June 2001