Issue 412 of New Internationalist

June 2008

Included in this issue

Every family has its secrets. So does every nation. But Turkey’s official secret remains extraordinarily potent because public...

Nike workers in Vietnam go on strike

A yowl of fury against the Pop Idol-type mediocrity that seems so often to fuel cultural commerce these days.

There are over 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Thousands are deployed on land, at sea and in the air, posing the constant...

From the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima, to the Cold War, North Korea and beyond, nuclear fission has changed everything.

by Mitchell & Richardson

What are the West’s weapons actually for? asks *Paul Rogers*.

say hello to water called Ethos

Activist *Angie Zelter* celebrates a year-long blockade of Britain’s weapons of mass destruction.

In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once...

*Horatio Morpurgo* supplies an environmental missing link.

View from New Delhi by *Urvashi Butalia*