Mr. Raj Chengappa on “India and the Bomb: Myths…
Mr. Raj Chengappa’s lecture explores the topic
India and the Bomb: Myths and Reality.
Why did a nation born on the principle of non-violence, decide to build the most destructive weapon that humankind has invented? Why did India carry out its first nuclear explosion in 1974 and not soon after the 1964 Chinese test or before the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Why did India wait another 24 years before it carried a second round of tests in 1998? Did India and Pakistan come close to using nuclear weapons during the 1999 Kargil War? Is India’s Hydrogen Bomb a Dud? Will the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal compromise India’s strategic weapons? Will the Global Nuclear Zero movement succeed? These are some of the questions that shall be answered during the lecture.
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