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Monday, September 14, 2009

Folly in India's nuclear ways

Illustration Courtesy HarpreetThree recent events reopen the debate on the wisdom of India's nuclear tests in 1998, as judged from within the narrow framework of its own interests. Or rather, they confirm the folly of the tests.

K. Santhanam, director for the 1998 test sites preparations, has claimed that the hydrogen bomb tests yielded less than half the amount of projected destructive energy: 15-20 kilotonnes, not 45kt.

His claims have been rejected by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former president and then scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence Abdul Kalam, and Brajesh Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party Government's national security adviser.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete16/9/09 08:57

    The author forgets that Pakistan launched its own nuclear program as Pakistan felt that that was the only way to reach parity with India's conventional lead.

    That is, even if India did not go nuclear Pakistan would have.

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