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Comment: India’s claim for acceptance as a nuclear power.

  • UPSC 2005
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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After Pokhran-II in May 1998, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told Parliament that India was a nuclear weapon state. The non-proliferation order had no place for that claim. Under Article IX(3) of the NPT, only states that exploded a device before 1 January 1967 qualify, and UN Security Council Resolution 1172 (June 1998) asked India…

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