Tag: Nuclear
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Israel Threatens Military Action Against Iran Over Nuclear Enrichment
Chad dismantled two networks accused of being tied to Iran, the report said quoting Chadian security forces. Officials described a strategy of infiltration, indoctrination and promises of support for coups aimed at expanding Tehran’s influence in Africa. According to Infobae, the interrogations detailed how the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and…
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India’s Nuclear Legacy: A Critical Moment 27 Years After Pokhran
In an era where global powers are flexing their nuclear muscles and dormant arsenals hum with renewed urgency, India stands at a perilous crossroads: should it reignite the fire of nuclear testing to assert its strategic sovereignty, or maintain the delicate restraint that has balanced diplomacy and deterrence for decades? The shadow of India’s 1998…
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India’s ‘New Normal’ Doctrine: Implications for Nuclear Stability in South Asia
• Think tank says the narrative attempts to justify unilateral strikes• Terms Western belief in India as a counter to China flawed ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad-based think tank on Sunday warned that India’s “new normal” military doctrine is a destabilising force in nuclear-armed South Asia, saying New Delhi’s posture risks triggering a serious escalation in any…
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Revisiting India’s Nuclear Doctrine: A Strategic Imperative
No one watching the world’s first nuclear test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945 could have imagined today’s times when nine countries—openly or quietly—possess more than 12,200 nuclear warheads. At least two nations host foreign nuclear weapons. The stockpile was much larger during the Cold War when just two countries—US and the erstwhile USSR—…
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Chernobyl Nuclear Plant’s Protective Shield Sustains Damage, Reports UN Agency
This handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian Emergency Service on February 14, 2025 shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC), which protects the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following a drone attack on its cover built to contain radiation. | Photo Credit: AFP A protective shield at the Chernobyl…
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French Navy Engages Drones Near Nuclear Submarine Base, Reports AFP
Local authorities told the AFP a legal investigation had been launched and that the base wasn’t affected in its operations. Drones had already been spotted in the area last month, albeit not directly above the base, per reports in French media. The site had been buzzed by drones long before the invasion of Ukraine. The…
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Putin’s Arrival Boosts $100 Billion Nuclear Fuel Deal in Tennessee
At the 23rd India-Russia summit-level talks today (December 5) between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of the topics that might have consumed more time was the further expansion of nuclear cooperation between the two countries. In his much-talked-about interview with India Today on the eve of his trip to…
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Russia Completes Initial Nuclear Fuel Delivery for TN Nuclear Plant’s Third Unit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: A cargo flight transported the first batch of VVER-1000 fuel assemblies from the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant in southwestern Siberia to India, Rosatom said in a statement on Thursday.A total of seven flights from Russia are planned to supply the entire…