核武器不扩散条约》（NPT，以下简称《条约》）近来遭到了其缔约国的极大破坏：北朝鲜和伊朗不过是其中之一。而一直以来，印度、巴基斯坦和以色列这三个拥有核武器的国家都反对加入该条约，这对《条约》来说也不是好消息。但是，印度最近已经作出了友好表示，希望以核武器国家（NWS）的身份加入《条约》。在戴维•P•费德勒（David P. Fidler）和苏米特•甘古利（Sumit Ganguly）两位教授看来，印度的上述做法为《条约》带来了挑战，因为美国和其他四个核武器国家可能并不希望新成员加入其联盟。印度之所以建立核武器库，主要是为了起到威慑作用，她也不像中国和巴基斯坦那样，尝试扩散核武器。实际上，...
默默等待：印度总理曼莫汉•辛格（Manmohan Singh，左）和最近刚刚离任的国际原子能机构总干事穆罕默德•巴拉迪（Mohamed El Baradei)
伯明顿（Bloomington）：对伊朗核计划的持续披露，令整个世界面临的核扩散 危险逐步升级。将在今年四月召开的核安全峰会和五月召开的《核武器不扩散条约》（NPT）审查会议上，奥巴马总统将努力推动建立无核武器的世界，但不断增 加的核扩散危险可能会让奥巴马总统的追求落空。尽管世界各国几乎都成了《条约》的缔约国，但印度、...
Rules around citizenship help define a country’s values and aspirations. Large numbers of Indians are turning out to protest a new citizenship law that welcomes refugees from neighboring states but pointedly excludes Muslims. Authorities have detained hundreds of demonstrators and banned...
Rohingya Muslims, long marginalized, have few resources to resist the Myanmar military and flee the nation by the thousands. Social media can be a lifeline during such chaos. Yet in the midst of humanitarian crisis, Facebook is retaining the Myanmar military’s page while putting the Arakan Rohingya...
A new global treaty will limit products and processes that can release mercury – which attacks the nervous system – and require safe storage before the year 2020. This includes batteries, some fluorescent lamps, skin-whitening soaps, thermometers and blood pressure devices, and the convention will...
KUMAMOTO, Japan, October 10, 2013 (ENS) – Japan, where residents of Minamata suffered lethal mercury poisoning in the mid-1950s, today became one of the first countries to sign a new international treaty to reduce mercury emissions and to phase out...
As the new South Korean Prime Minister begins his first official visit to the United States, North Korea's Central News Agency released a report detailing the central role the United States has played and continues to play in the nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The report is a...
Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency issued today a detailed report denouncing the united states for reducing to a dead document the joint declaration on denuclearisation issued by north and south...
国际社会质疑巴基斯坦对其日益壮大的核武库的控制能力，这使巴基斯坦感到愤怒。布鲁斯•里德尔（Bruce Riedel）是布鲁金斯学会萨班中东政策研究中心资深研究员，新书《僵局：巴基斯坦、美国以及全球圣战的未来》的作者。他指出，虽然民主选举的文官领导人具有名义上的权威，但军方领导人却掌握着核武器。外部原因在过去被看作是建造核武器的正当理由，但巴基斯坦日益认识到，内部威胁可能超过外部威胁。巴基斯坦最大省份旁遮普的地方长官遭其精锐卫兵的刺杀，这引起更多对敏感位置人事审查机制和未经授权的核技术转让的质疑。这一问题又因为美国在南亚次大陆摇摆不定的政策而变得更加扑朔迷离。...
华盛顿：巴基斯坦核武库正在以全世界最快的速度迅速壮大。该核武库防卫完善，高度隐蔽且分散部署。为防止核武器落入敌人，尤其是美国之手，巴基斯坦军队竭力封锁关于其武器藏匿地的所有消息。巴方军队紧握着巴基斯坦用以抵抗任何外来威胁的核威慑力量，随时准备动用核武保卫祖国。
但国际社会却质疑巴基斯坦的控制能力：核武器会不会落入巴基斯坦国内反对者的手中？巴基斯坦最大的省旁遮普省（Punjab）的地方长官萨勒曼・塔西尔（Salman Taseer）被自己的卫兵暗杀。...
Indians rank first for economic performance in terms of the income earned by ethnic groups in the United States. “America welcomes immigrants from all over the globe, offering a level playing field, and encourages them to test themselves against world-class competition,” writes Kishore Mahbubani,...
Indian winners: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, greets newly appointed governor of Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, right, watched by Rakesh Mohan, IMF executive director (top); Tata Indica Vista EVX, developed by Tata Motors’ UK...
About 30 million Kurds live throughout the Middle East in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. The ethnic group represents about 13 percent of Turkey’s population and at least 7 percent of Syrians, and the United States has long backed Kurds fighting extremists in Syria. Turkey and its Kurdish...
Broken peace: Kurds celebrated, hoping for peace after Turkey and the Kurdish PKK agreed to a ceasefire in 2013, but heightened tensions and urban warfare soon followed in cities like Suriçi
NEW HAVEN: In 2015, the rising of Rojava, a Kurdish region...
