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July 26, 2009
Depart Mr Jekyll, Enter Mr Hyde
Prabir Purkayastha
AFTER the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting last September, the government of India had mounted a high voltage campaign how it had secured a “clean and unconditional” waiver. Prime minister Manmohan Singh had hailed the NSG's waiver as enabling “full civil nuclear cooperation” with India, and said, “It marks the end of India's decades long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and of technology denial regime." What the government had hid from the people is that the ...
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US Defence Budget 2010: change and continuity under Obama D. Raghunandan 14/05/2009 The Obama administration has sent its first defence budget, for fiscal 2010, to Congress for approval. This budget deserves to be carefully studied, if not for any definite direction it may set for US defence policy since it is only a few months since President Obama took office, then at least for the ...
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D. Raghunandan 27th April, 2009 Another link in the deepening military ties between India and Israel was established on April 20 when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched a sophisticated surveillance satellite procured from Israel. Fooling nobody, ISRO at first blandly claimed that the satellite “will enhance ISRO’s capability for earth observation, especially during floods, cyclones, landslides and in management of disasters.” W ...
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September 21 , 2008 September 14 , 2008
The Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After
Prabir Purkayastha
THE NSG waiver is now officially in the bag, with the Indian media portraying this ...
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November 09, 2008
The Hard Landing For Nuclear Power
Prabir Purkayastha
HYPE is very much like a drug induced high – makes you feel you are floating on air as long as it lasts, but the landing can be quite hard. For those hyping up the nuclear renaissance, the landing is proving hard indeed. The current costs of nuclear plants are not $2000 per KW as predicted earlier by the nuclear lobby, but “double to quadruple earlier rough estimates (Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2008 -- New Wave of Nuclear Plants Faces H ...
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