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Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia and China were the first Asian nations with nuclear weapons, followed by Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Most of the world's nuclear powers are reducing their arsenals or maintaining them at historic levels, but several of those in Asia—India, Pakistan, and North Korea—continue to pursue relentless and expensive programs of nuclear weapons development and production. Hopefully, the nuclear agreement reached in July 2015 between Iran, the European Union, and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council will be a step toward eliminating nuclear weapons throughout Asia and the rest of the world. As we will discuss below, any country possessing a nuclear arsenal is on a path leading toward self-assured destruction, and is a threat to people everywhere on Earth.

A nuclear war between Russia and the United States, even after the arsenal reductions planned under New START, could produce a nuclear winter. Hence, an attack by either side could be suicidal, resulting in self-assured destruction. Even a “small” nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with each country detonating 50 Hiroshima-size atom bombs—only about 0.03 percent of the global nuclear arsenal’s explosive power—as air bursts in urban areas, could produce so much smoke that temperatures would fall below those of the Little Ice Age of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, shortening the growing season around the world and threatening the global food supply. Furthermore, there would be massive ozone depletion, allowing more ultraviolet radiation to reach Earth’s surface. Recent studies predict that agricultural production in parts of the United States and China would decline by about 20 percent for four years, and by 10 percent for a decade. The environmental threat posed by even a small number of nucle...

With talent management (TM) becoming an area of growing concern in the literature, the purpose of this paper is to investigate TM strategies for Gen Y which has specific traits, needs and expectations and it is vital for those organisations who understand to attract and retain them. The paper is based on an extensive analysis of existing literature and identifies the unique features of Gen Y employees to develop strategies to manage them for better results at workplace. It is found that just an innovative thought process and empathetic understanding shall help organisations manage better. The paper further elaborates on TM strategies of Gen Y through consolidated framework that contributes to the existing literature.

The aim of this article is to contribute to a more refined understanding of the inner logic of ‘Afrikanerdom’ and its usage of ethnicity during the latter half of the twentieth century. Instead of following the customary road of approaching the subject matter ‘from the outside’ only, an analysis is here done also ‘from within’. Both methods are applied to a key metaphor which was consistently used throughout the past five decades in Afrikaner elite discourse. This is accessed through one of the fundamental — yet from a scholarly point of view neglected — forms of expression of Afrikaner discourse: Afrikaner theology and religion. Such an approach allows one entry into the intimacy of Afrikaner self‐conceptions, as opposed to public posturing, and leads to a picture of a far less self assured and far less principled Afrikaner than popular scholarship and media folklore has painted.

Too soon the curtain of this stage will rise Well trained am I and in this role well versed In readiness again I don my guise Yet fear and trembling parch my throat with thirst My face assumes a self assured masque The company does not suspect I feign

Imagine yourself transformed by a pill. Where once you were hesitant, shy, and self critical, now you are confident and self assured. Once driven by guilt and obligation, prone to doomed, self destructive relationships, now you find yourself relaxed and composed, able to joke and laugh at yourself. Now you stop taking the pill, and you change again. Your self returns. But it's not the same as before. You don't feel like yourself, despite the fact that these habits and traits of character were yours for a lifetime before you took the drug. What would this experience tell you? Which is your “self” - the one on the drug, or the one off it? Is …

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the problem of dependence on foreign capital for economic growth of Pakistan, a typically under¬developed country which is relying rather heavily on foreign assistance without a sufficiently spelled-out analysis of the economic and political consequences of such a policy for the country's future. The discussion starts with an analysis of the implications of Pakistan's current Perspective Plan (1965-85) for plan-terminal external indebtedness of the country (Section II). Need for careful rationalization of a terminal bequest of liability of this magnitude to future society is stressed. This is followed by a discussion (Section III) of the alternatives the country would have to service the external indebtedness with which it would be saddled at termination of its Perspective Plan. It is pointed out that the alternatives have political implications for the country's future, and one may question the ethics of thus restricting choice of policies for future generations.