This chapter summarizes the history of India' nuclear-weapons development program and the central factors that shaped it. The history is divided into four somewhat distinct phases, with the third culminating in the nuclear tests of May 1998. The chapter then chronicles unusually dramatic events of ...
[24] See also Carey Sublette, “Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program Development,”The Nuclear Weapon Archive, January 2, 2002, athttp://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakDevelop.html. [25] In a “Back of the Book”(BoB) intelligence analysis dated June 23, 1983, to Secretary of State ...
directly arranged the plane crash which killed Homi Bhabha but relied on Russian intelligence agencies, with which it did “business”, to assassinate Shastri who had given a go ahead for an Indian nuclear weapons program. The Russian intelligence agencies — large parts of which were brought on ...
With the stroke of a pen, Trump took the United States out of an internationally supported treaty known as the Iranian nuclear deal—successfully preventing Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapons program for a decade or more. The UN agencies policing this deal, plus Trump’s own head of the Pe...
Policy makers put more emphasis in the establishment of modern industries, modern scientific and technological institutes, development of space and nuclear programmes. Though extreme efforts were made to enhance economy after independence, the country did not develop at rapid rate because there...
Our results demonstrate that the transport of the transuranic radioisotopes through the ITF continues to this day, and that over the period since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, the rate of their deposition to the sediments has decreased more slowly than would be expected from...
extending to the nuclear level. Such factors have, in turn, provided opportunities for major power involvement in the area. Given South Asia’s geographical position between the Gulf states, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, the states of the subcontinent are likely to continue to experience ...
It noted that the use case involving nuclear security, focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide, was “highly consequential” and that it is critical for “OpenAI to support it as part of our commitment to national security....
Using the newly acquired sophisticated weapons through the American arms aid, Pakistan believed that it could achieve tactical victories in a quick, limited war. However, the Operation Gibraltar failed as the Kashmiris did not revolt. Instead, they turned in infiltrators to the Indian authorities ...
During a summit meeting in Vienna, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II agreement dealing with limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons. The treaty, which never formally went into effect, proved to be one of the most controversial U.S.-Soviet agreements...