01-06-2007, 01:23 AM
<b>For over 2 hrs, scientists tried to persuade me to go in for nuclear test, I said no: Deve Gowda</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->âThe issue (going in for a follow-up to the 1974 Pokharan test) came up before me sometime at the end of January or early February of 1997. Certain leading scientists, officials (he mentioned no names) came to me and tried to persuade me for two and a half hours on going in for a nuclear test,â Deve Gowda told The Financial Express. âBut my answer was no,â he said.
<b>âThe primary reason not to conduct another nuclear test was not the fear of American sanctions but because I didnât want relations in the sub-continent to be spoilt. We wanted to improve our relations with our neighbours,â</b> Deve Gowda said.
<b>He added that by then, dates had been fixed for holding bilateral talks with Pakistan and he did not want anything to disrupt the process</b>.
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What a moron he was? He messed up Army and delayed nuclear test. Now completly messed up Karnataka.
<b>âThe primary reason not to conduct another nuclear test was not the fear of American sanctions but because I didnât want relations in the sub-continent to be spoilt. We wanted to improve our relations with our neighbours,â</b> Deve Gowda said.
<b>He added that by then, dates had been fixed for holding bilateral talks with Pakistan and he did not want anything to disrupt the process</b>.
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What a moron he was? He messed up Army and delayed nuclear test. Now completly messed up Karnataka.