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The Indo-US nuclear deal and India’s nuclear deterrent

All of us are rightly spewing indignation and anger at the spineless machinations of India’s politicians regarding the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal. However it is also instructive to take a look at what the technical and strategic issues and their implications are. The issues are admittedly complex, but as I sifted through some of the [...]

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Unclear? No, it’s nuclear

Back in the days when I was still cutting classes and fortifying my immune system by hanging out in the university cafeteria, one of the running departmental jokes among my friends was about the decrepit-looking old building designated “nuclear chemistry”, a remnant of the sometime heyday of that science when a well-known nuclear chemist had [...]

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