Dr Manpreet Sethi
Early Nuclear Indicators in the US’ Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
President Joe Biden’s administration has been quick off the mark to retrieve control on many domestic and foreign policy fronts: reining in the COVID-19 health emergency, extending New START, reassuring…
Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Ten Years of Rising Dangers
Early 2010s: A Mood of Optimism The decade of the 2010s dawned with much nuclear hope and optimism, basking in the glow of President Obama’s Prague speech of April 2009.…
Another Date-Change for the NPT RevCon: Fresh Opportunity to Shape its Success
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that conducts a review conference (RevCon) every five years was due to hold one in April-May 2020. This RevCon had special significance as it was…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in India-China Nuclear Relations
India-China nuclear relations are unique and complex. China refuses to recognise India as a nuclear weapons state (NWS), though there is no denying the reality of India’s nuclear weapons. In…
The North Korean Nuclear Knot and China’s Dilemma
The relationship between China and North Korea has often been described as similar to that between lips and teeth. Besides sharing the political ideology of communism, China is important for…
Nuclear Energy: Is it in or out?
Two contrasting news on nuclear energy from two different parts of the world greeted the dawn of the new year. Germany announced the decommissioning of another of its nuclear power…
Pulwama, Balakot, and the Future: How the Chips Stack Up
For the time being, the India-Pakistan crisis triggered by the terrorist strike against the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in February in Pulwama appears to have stabilised. However, India…
The Bomb Banned: By and For the NNWS, For Now
As the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), popularly referred to as the Ban Treaty, opens for signature on 20 September 2017, it is most likely that it…
Chinese Responsibility on DPRK: No ‘Theory’, Immutable Reality
Recent videos from North Korea – or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – show their Supreme Commander of the Army, Kim Jong-un, chuckling away as he watches his country’s…
Indian Nuclear Policy and Diplomacy
Democracies often undergo swings in policies with change of governments. India’s nuclear policy, however, in both its dimensions – weapons and power generation – has enjoyed broad support across political…
Limits of Practising Nuclear Brinksmanship
Thomas Schelling, a noted nuclear strategist who passed away recently, explained brinkmanship as a strategy that “means manipulating the shared risk of war. It means exploiting the danger that somebody…
Pak’s Nuclear ‘Normality’ through External Deals: Chasing a Chimera
Several recent writings have recommended how Pakistan could and should be accommodated into the nuclear mainstream. Mark Fitzpatrick, a non-proliferation analyst at the IISS, London, had advocated this through…
