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South Asia

What India’s MIRV test adds to the ‘strategic trilemma’ in South Asia

By Huma Rehman | Nuclear Weapons

How India’s restructured rocket force makes conflict with China more likely

By Debak Das | Nuclear Weapons

Zanskar River, in the Himalayas

Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia

By Asha Asokan, Ira Helfand | Climate Change

Mask wearers in India

Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia

By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange, Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis

An Indian border outpost at Nathu La, in Sikkim.

Sticks, stones, and words: “Ugly stability” between India and China

By Karthika Sasikumar | Nuclear Risk

A map showing nuclear strikes during an India-Pakistan war scenario

How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences

By Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon, Charles G. Bardeen, Lili Xia, Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, R. J. Peterson, Cheryl S. Harrison, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Richard P. Turco | Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

Postage Stamp, Apsara Research Atomic Reactor in Trombay, Mumbai, circa 1965

Estimating India’s nuclear weapons-producing capacity

By Syed Sadam Hussain Shah, Syed Javaid Khurshid | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Zia Mian on scientists, the nuclear threat, and a treaty to ban nuclear weapons

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Managing nuclear risk in South Asia – An Indian response

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Managing nuclear risk in South Asia – A Pakistani response

By Rabia Akhtar | Uncategorized

Managing nuclear risk in South Asia – A US response

By Mario E. Carranza | Uncategorized

Global warming, the atmospheric brown cloud, and the changing Indian summer monsoon

By A. Giannini | Climate Change