Indian PM Examines Effort to Ready Nuclear-Armed Submarine

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday presided over a meeting of the government's Nuclear Command Authority, which reviewed nuclear-stockpile expenditures and efforts to operationalize the nation's first ballistic-missile submarine, the Times of India reported.

The high-level meeting was attended by India's senior government ministers, national-security adviser and heads of its army, air force and navy.

A pressing focus of the Nuclear Command Authority has been the length of time it has taken to acquire the ability to deliver nuclear weapons by air, land and sea.

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