10-19-2012, 02:58 PM
While in my previous post I have been rightfully critical of D. K. Palit, no analysis is complete or credible without objectivity. To the best of my knowledge, D. K. Palit produced the first treatise logically enunciating Indian nuclear weaponization, which has yet to be surpassed by anybody in the Indian power structure. That single work of his erases any of his activities during the 1962 debacle. If the powers-that-be in the Indian power structure comprised of competent persons instead of lackeys and "intellectual dung beetles", perhaps Palit's contacts with De Beers could have been used to open a backdoor for some sort of clandestine exchange of nuclear data between India, South Africa, and Israel (which at that point of time was closely collaborating with South Africa). India would have lost the 1962 war even without Palit. The Nehru-Menon-Kaul-Mullick-Thapar clique would have ensured the outcome without any additional help from anybody. However, India's continual refusal to see the writing on the wall first highlighted by Palit, and its deliberate delusions concerning the credibility of its nuclear arsenal will one day lead to events far greater than the tragedy of 1962.