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India has right to make nuke bombs. Has it?
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by rahul | October 27, 2008 at 06:46 pm
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India's foreign minister has said that New Delhi has a sovereign right to make a nuclear bomb should it feel necessary to do so. "Just as India has the right to make a nuclear bomb, countries that are against it have the right to oppose. Among the 185 countries in the world, there are big powers like the US and very small countries like Fiji and the Solomon Islands. All are sovereign and have equal rights," Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said addressing a seminar in Kolkata, on Monday, the Press Trust of India reported. Claiming that the Indo-US nuclear deal would not compromise India's independent foreign policy, Mukherjee said, "Our foreign policy is aimed at extending our national interest in the context of the international situation." India signed a major pact with the US early this month opening up sales of civilian nuclear technology to India for the first time in three decades. The foreign ministers remarks come at a time that the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that India would face grave consequences if New Delhi conducts a nuclear bomb test following the deal. But Indian officials as like the foreign minister have said that New Delhi considers conducting nuclear bomb tests as the country's sovereign right. India is a non-signatory to the international Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has numerously tested nuclear arms. Original source at PressTV
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at 04:57 on October 28th, 2008
India always has the right to test Nuclear bomb. Since we have never initiated war on any country like which pakistan does
at 10:48 on October 29th, 2008
Hitler said he didn't initiate any wars either. He was just trying to remove the unjust and impossible reparation conditions from World War I imposed by the Allied countries. No country believes it is an aggressor and always has an excuse for starting a war like the US did against Iraq (under the pretext of Iraq owning and hiding "Weapons of Mass Destruction"). No such weapons were ever found but the US is still in Iraq and feels justified in having starting the war and removing Saddam Hussain whom they had themselves propped up.
India should have shown greater maturity but our leaders (from all parties) made such a prestige issue about the Nuclear Deal that we gullible citizens have started believing the lie that we need Nuclear Deal like we need Oxygen.
This is utter rubbish. Even according to the Govt.of India, by the year 2020, the share of Nuclear Power in total power production in the country will be only 3%. By the year 2030 it will be 10%. Far more can be achieved at much lower cost through energy from renewable sources like Solar, Wind, Micro Hydel etc but we have become slaves of the media and begun losing our faculty for thinking for ourselves.
Nuclear power is expensive, unviable and dangerous. Nuclear waste takes thousands of years before it stops radiating and in the interim period there is risk of terrorism and natural calamities that could expose humans and animals to deadly radiation from spent fuel. This is why no advanced country except France has built any nuclear plants for over 30 years..
But who is listening? Chest thumping chauvinistic gestures are easier to perform than to think for oneself.