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US strikes on Iran nuke plants risk backfiring
Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 26/06/2025
» Israel and the United States have dealt punishing blows to Iran's nuclear infrastructure. "Operation Rising Lion" and "Operation Midnight Hammer" have been portrayed as precision strikes that will stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme in its tracks. But whatever the bombings might have achieved tactically, they risk forfeiting strategically, as Iran is now more convinced than ever that nuclear weapons are the only way to deter future aggression and ensure the regime's survival.
Thailand's 3 goals at 76th UNGA
Oped, Nadhavathna Krishnamra, Published on 29/09/2021
» The 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) commenced this year with trepidation and lots of anticipation. With over a year of constrained travels and limited in-person meetings, this year's UNGA session began on Sept 14, lasted two weeks and has started to offer a good measure of hope.
We're safe from non-existent nukes in Iran
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/04/2021
» First, the good news. The US and Iran had talks in Vienna on Tuesday, and the nuclear deal they and all the other great powers signed in 2015 is coming back.
A step closer to a world without nuclear weapons
Oped, Sippakorn Chongchuwanich, Published on 20/01/2021
» Last year, the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events so catastrophic that they burnt themselves into our collective memory, and have continued to define our geopolitical landscapes to this day.
Are we on the eve of destruction?
Oped, Sippakorn Chongchuwanich, Published on 06/08/2020
» What we cannot prepare for, we must prevent. Nuclear weapons are among humanity's darkest and most inhumane arsenal of war. It is high time, then, 75 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to look back and acknowledge the incalculable human impact of this dangerous instrument of destruction.