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[quote name='Arun_S' date='26 February 2013 - 01:49 AM' timestamp='1361864507' post='116495']

Arihant can't carry warheads based on Pok-1 Pok-II, due to harmful radiation to men in close quarter.



So either Arihant idles, or Pok-III happens.

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What prevents them from putting untested new warheads on Arihant ? after all, if most of our sloika type weapons are also not field tested but still have undergone some other ``credible" alternative, what prevents HEU based sloikas from undergoing the same alternative you mentioned without actually undergoing field testing ?



Also, if what BK states about 2 stage TNs being deployed (without field tests) after corrections made to RCs fizzle are true, then I would not put it beyond the establishment to deploy untested TNs specially meant for SLBMs. Adm. Arun Prakash hints at such a phenomenon when he mentions in one of his articles that absent further testing, the yield of SLBM warheads will be uncertain. Some in the establishment who for whatever reason may be hesitant to test may be satisfied deploying warheads of such uncertain yield.



I hope, however that this is not the case and that Pok-III happens no matter who in power does it..