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President Bush and India`s Nuclear programme06 March 2001
On the nuclear issue, there is unwarranted optimism in India that Mr.Bush`s opposition to the CTBT means pressures on India on the nuclear and missile proliferation issues would now lessen and that there could even be a lifting of the sanctions and the restrictions on sensitive technology transfer. A careful reading of Mr.Bush`s election manifesto and the various campaign statements would indicate, that, while rejecting the CTBT as not in US national interest, the incoming Bush Administration might oppose nuclear and missile proliferation by other countries as vigorously as the Clinton Administration did. The election manifesto has been critical of the CIA, inter alia, for failing to effectively monitor India`s nuclear preparations.`

Pakistan`s Nuclear Ambitions 18 November 2000
Pakistan`s ambitious plan of joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group is not founded on its capabilities. More than 28 years after acquisition of its first nuclear power reactor, Pakistan"s capabilities to design, manufacture and construct nuclear reactors have remained practically non-existent.

The NBC Leak on India-Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Status 13 June 2000
A section of the US military establishment appears to have deliberately leaked provocative views on Pakistan"s nuclear capabilities to the media.

Pakistan`s Post-Chagai Diplomatic Negotiations 03 January 1999
B. Raman analyses Pakistan`s post-Chagai diplomatic negotiations to harmonise its security concerns with the non-proliferation concerns of the international community and to free itself from what it looks upon as unjust and unequal (in comparison to India) economic and military disabilities imposed on it since 1990.

Nuclear Bogey in the Subcontinent 02 January 1999
Nukes are not the real problem in the Subcontinent - territorial aggrandisement by a handful of militarily powerful countries is. Two countries - Pakistan and China - are casting a long shadow over the Subcontinent. Nuclear weapons are a symptom and not the cause of the underlying dynamics.

Former Indian Army Chief Fears Nuclear Programme Could be Scuttled 05 October 1998
The former Indian Chief of Army Staff, General Shankar Roychowdhury, hopes that the important step taken in developing a nuclear deterrence should not be halted or stopped if another government comes to power purely because the successor government is politically opposed to the present government.

The Indian Nuclear Tests of 13 May 1998 14 May 1998
Why the Second Round of Nuclear Tests? Answer: Because India wanted to do it once and get over with it.

Indian Nuclear Tests: A Decision At Last 12 May 1998
Indian scientists have been itching to carry out further nuclear tests for over 15 years now. The problem always was one of political indecision. The indecision is over. Enter a new era.