10-29-2009, 01:23 AM
I have been racking my brains to think why did the Indian scientist -strategists think nukes were a political weapon. The early years the consensus was between the scientist and political strategists that these were political symbols. The military strategists were silenced till the later emergence of Gen. Sunderji.
I have been reading the evolution of the nuke doctrine in UK and France and find the same mind-set.
Most likely the Indian elite picked the ideas from the Western Europeans: UK and British and that can be seen by the close contact they had with those two countries. Even the political strategists had their education at LSE and Kings College.
So these two former Empires came up with their own reasons for nukes while still being under US umbrella and India picked up those arguements to justify her own quest. And due to the contradictions, India is confronted with dual nuke threats on its borders while those two had the former Soviet Union as a threat with US backing them and retain their weapons even after the Soviets vanished.
I have been reading the evolution of the nuke doctrine in UK and France and find the same mind-set.
Most likely the Indian elite picked the ideas from the Western Europeans: UK and British and that can be seen by the close contact they had with those two countries. Even the political strategists had their education at LSE and Kings College.
So these two former Empires came up with their own reasons for nukes while still being under US umbrella and India picked up those arguements to justify her own quest. And due to the contradictions, India is confronted with dual nuke threats on its borders while those two had the former Soviet Union as a threat with US backing them and retain their weapons even after the Soviets vanished.