Ebola vaccine developed to fight bioterrorism

An experimental vaccine against the lethal Ebola virus has been administered to humans for the first time in November 2003. If the trial proves …

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Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …

Bioterrorism: Contentious content

The sudden spurt in articles on bioterrorism published by medical journals may have inadvertently helped convince the public that the war on Iraq …

US, Russia, China race to develop hypersonic weapons

Weapons that travel far faster than sound may be snazzy, but what about the defence against them

International Court rejects case against India on nuclear disarmament

The ICJ observed that there is no legal dispute between the Marshall Islands and India on the issue of nuclear disarmament

Report warns India against untested technology for nuclear power plants

Twelve nuclear plants have been proposed in India that will use new, untested technology

Code of misconduct

The human genome may not solve all our problems. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the decoding is the ability to predict people's …

Debate: Should forest guards in India be armed with firearms?

Will giving guns to forest guards make them secure in their job? Or will it lead to tragic consequences for forest dwellers? Down To Earth puts …

'The talk of space wars, colonisation is still in the realm of fiction'

Weaponisation of space has long seemed inevitable and Trump's announcement of Space Force diverges from historical conventions that consider …

War is upon us

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Safe or smug?

The awareness of the looming threat of bioweapons has evoked a serious response from all over the world, except India

A dangerous club

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Dictating terms

The US forces its agenda upon other member states at the fifth review conference of the bioweapons convention

Down with the dump

Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

Germs of terror

As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality

Russell-Einstein Manifesto, ICJ case and Rainbow Warrior bombing: Remembering humanity

Anniversaries of the three events provide inspiration to consider roles of science, law and diplomacy to advance peace, security and nuclear …

New Bill, old problems

The government is considering setting up a new authority to regulate civil nuclear facilities, saying it will be autonomous and more powerful …

India gets near bottom rank in Nuclear Materials Safety Index

US nuclear watchdog says India's regulatory failure to protect weapons-grade nuclear materials has pushed it below Pakistan and China in ranking

$4.5 billion question

Where does Afghanistan go from here? Does it have the capacity to utilise the funds? There are too many players, too many interests and too much …

The Die Hards

Despite marathon wars, Afghan resilience is intact. So is their affiliation to localised independence

"Massive assault"

Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of …

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Secret revealed

N-tangle