Nuclear Warfare

24 Mar 2011

We may not know for some time how bad were the nuclear accident and the devastation of the tsunami on Japan, but it has been serious enough to make Japanese wonder: 'Why us?' Why us, when this...

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Quotes of the week

16 Jan 2010

Even the Communist Party supports Confucianism... Please throw bananas at whoever opposes Confucius

Tong Yun-kai, president of the Confucian Academy, in Legco to lobby lawmakers to...

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Doubts about China's rise dangerous for us all

29 Sep 2009

The Communist Party places great store in the military parade at the heart of Thursday's anniversary celebrations of its coming to power.

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China's might, and the maybes

29 Sep 2009

When China's first large-scale military parade in years rolls through Beijing on Thursday, the world will be pondering what isn't on display.

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Ex-nuclear site marked for tourism

2 Jun 2009

One of the mainland's former nuclear-weapons facilities will be developed into a site for 'red tourism'. The area, in Xinjiang's mountainous Heshuo county, was a centre for nuclear research and...

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Slice of Life

25 Sep 2007

From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1962

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Game theory anything but child's play in the hands of the Wizards of Armageddon

It's curious how the phrase 'dogs of war' usually refers to mercenaries when many intellectuals can easily fit the description.

5:53AM

When the clock strikes midnight

At 8.15am, on August 6 in Hiroshima, the sound of a bell plaintively blown by the wind tinkles through the screeching of cicadas as the silence begins for the victims of the world's first...

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Britain's chance to banish the bomb

On its submarines, Britain has 48 nuclear warheads, each one eight times as powerful as the nuclear bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. In other words, Prime Minister Tony Blair theoretically could...

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Among the Dead Cities

philosophy of war

Among the Dead Cities

by A.C. Grayling

Bloomsbury, $290

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Blinded by Iran to the real nuclear threat

After spending three months in Baghdad more than a year ago, I asked who posed the bigger threat: the terrorists in the desolate apartment blocks close to my hotel or the North Koreans -...

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Doomsday scenario of our own making

American policy lacks an overall sense of urgency about the spread and possible use of nuclear weapons. In all probability, this lapse will, one day, lead to immense tragedy. The world has been...

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