Nuclear Weapons Testing

N Korea ready to conduct nuclear, missile tests

8 Nov 2012

South Korea’s defence minister said on Thursday that North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, and would also test-launch long-range missiles sometime in the future.

6:44PM

North Korea is preparing for third nuclear test

26 Oct 2012

North Korea has kept up preparations for a new nuclear test after having carried out previous detonations in 2006 and 2009, South Korea's Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a news conference.

3:02AM

Slice of Life

25 Sep 2007

From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1962

6:06AM

In Brief

5 Sep 2003

400 students treated for canteen-food poisoning

8:06AM

Dangerous tit-for-tat

17 Apr 1999

As if the world did not already have enough trouble spots to worry about, the dangerous game of missile one-upmanship taking place on the Indian sub-continent raises fears that this may be about...

1:08AM

Unguided missile

12 Apr 1999

Less than a year ago, while the world looked on in apprehension, Indians danced in the streets to celebrate their country's surprise series of nuclear tests which gave a shaky government a new...

12:31AM

Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Day of reckoning may be near

Comments which contradict those who have displayed euphoria over India's nuclear tests are unwelcome in the country. However, I am Indian and I would like to present the other side of the coin.

10:25AM

India's nuclear acquisition not to be feared

This is in reference to Anand Patwardhan's letter 'Nuclear tests no cause for celebration' (South China Morning Post, May 29).

9:47AM

Nuclear tests no cause for celebration

As a child it was hard for me to believe that there were people in this world who took pleasure in the killing of six million Jews, and people in the world who thought that killing hundreds of...

9:19AM

Irresponsible India

Mahatma Gandhi's spirit must be watching in dismay. Having vowed to make outlawing the atomic bomb one of his missions in life, Gandhi would have been as appalled as the rest of the world at the...

7:39AM

India revives nuclear tests

India shook the world yesterday when it said it had conducted three underground nuclear tests, its first in 24 years.

7:34AM

Fallout from the tests

AFTER conducting six nuclear explosions in Polynesia, France faces a long and painful task in trying to rebuild relations with Asia and the Pacific, where Paris is now seen as an outcast for its...

5:09AM