(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012: India and The World - India and Nuclear Order
India & The World
India and Nuclear Order:
Question : Why India and ahead with nuclear test?
Answer:
- Chinese aggression
- Clandestine nuclear programme of Pakistan.
- To show India’s nuclear weapon state.
Question : What India gets from 2008 nuclear waiver?
Answer :
- Stock pile of uranium for reactors
- Advanced technologies & equipment
- To meet the energy requirement of emerging India.
- To gain the status of world power.
- To reduce the pressure from China
Question : What are the implications for other countries?
Answer :
- The nuclear co-operation seen by China as a diplomatic defeat.
- Pakistan did not like the closeness of Indo-us relations.
