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.

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