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

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 …

Simply Put: Vladimir’s deterrent

Up in arms

Database of potential bioweapons

Clandestine exercise

Dumping live ammo

Ghaziabad blast is the tip of a hazardous import iceberg

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 …

Twilight Zone

STORY, SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTION— R Sarath

US gets tough

Alarm over terror tool

Smallpox scare leads to panic purchase of its vaccine

Iraq syndrome

Multiple vaccinations torment US soldiers after the Iraq war

Hitler's minefield

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

Threats from the past

Cold War nuclear testing has caused 11,000 cancer deaths in the US

Shaken but not stirred

US sticks to its guns on not verifying bioweapons treaty

A dangerous club

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Simply Put: Hiroshima Day 2023

Simply Put: 75 years of Hiroshima

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