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A must read.
Also mega-scary in a way because Chinese experts don't think that the Indian nuclear arsenal, howsoever small it may be at this point, provides India with a deterrence of any sort against China. https://twitter.com/zhaot2005/status/1296092647216439298
Also mega-scary in a way because Chinese experts don't think that the Indian nuclear arsenal, howsoever small it may be at this point, provides India with a deterrence of any sort against China. https://twitter.com/zhaot2005/status/1296092647216439298
The consequences of majorly screwing up immaturely-conducted Pokran-II still haunt us and will continue to do so for many more decades. There's only one person to blame for this: Vajpayee.
Pokhran-II single-handedly sealed India's fate in a way.
Immaturely-conducted > We naturally screwed up > Didn't get the two-stage thermonuclear weapon we wanted > Still got sanctioned > Half a decade later Bush wants to remove sanctions with a condition we give up on further
Immaturely-conducted > We naturally screwed up > Didn't get the two-stage thermonuclear weapon we wanted > Still got sanctioned > Half a decade later Bush wants to remove sanctions with a condition we give up on further
nuclear testing as well as our ICBM ambitions > We accept > US-India "friendship" starts from then onwards > India now well on its way to become yet another US client state
