Nuclear Strategy
Honeywell, BWX Technology Seen as Winners in Trump Nuclear Testing Plan
President Donald Trump has ordered the Defense Department to begin testing nuclear weapons, marking the first time the U. S. will do so since...
Russia’s Doomsday Torpedo: Putin Announces Successful Poseidon Test
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that Russia successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered autonomous torpedo.
He described the test as a significant achievement, noting...
Russia’s Doomsday Missile: Decoding Russia’s Burevestnik Cruise Missile
President Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday that Russia successfully tested the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile. This missile, known as the 9M730, is a ground-launched,...
“Awake Or Asleep”: Reason, Not Politics, Is The Path To Nuclear War Avoidance
“Whether we are awake or asleep, we should never let ourselves be persuaded except on the evidence of our reason.” - René Descartes, Discourse...
India`s Agni-P Missile Test – Shifting Dynamics of Deterrence in South Asia
India's recent launch of a rail-based Agni-Prime ballistic missile reflects the country's continued expansion of its missile systems as part of its military modernization...
“On A Darkling Plain” – Humankind’s Core Obligation to Prevent Nuclear War
“And we are here as on a darkling plain….” -Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
It’s not a subtle or controversial observation: Unless humankind is able to...
Reason And Existence: Israel And Nuclear War
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and never appears in reality without it.” - Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935)
Introduction
Along...
India’s nuclear exceptionalism: An irony/ a question to non-proliferation framework
An international order constructed based on norms and treaties to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, India stands as a disturbing exception. India, despite...
Primal Connections: Death, Time and Nuclear War
“It is through death that there is time….” Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (1976)
The threat is not mysterious. In the final analysis, it...
Enhancing Strategic Deterrence: Israel and Limited Nuclear War
“For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.”-Proverbs 24,6
On its face, the idea of a “limited nuclear war” seems self-contradictory, both generically and...