May 27, 2006
LET US NUKE THEM FOR YOU (via Tom Morin):
India shelves ambitious nuclear missile program (Siddharth Srivastava, 5/26/06, Asia Times)
Has the Agni III, India's most ambitious nuclear-capable ballistic-missile program, been aborted or merely put in cold storage? Keen to impress the world community of its peaceful intentions in its quest to obtain nuclear fuel and technology from the United States, France, Canada and Australia, it seems that New Delhi has made up its mind to shelve plans for big military-power credentials for now.The government has decided to cancel the first test-firing of an Indian inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM), one with a range of 4,000 kilometers (some say up to 6,000km), which is sufficient to reach China and capable of delivering a nuclear payload.
Pressure from the US and others cannot be discounted. The United States has always been very suspicious about India's Agni program, and in 1994 persuaded it to suspend testing of the missile after three test flights.
India needs to focus on the capability of taking out Pakistan completely--we'll do China if push ever comes to shove. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 27, 2006 7:47 PM
India needs to focus on the capability of taking out Pakistan completely-
It's not urgent right now. India has things going their way so they can afford to shelve those ambitions.
Pakistan is nuclear neutered. Think back to the beginning of the Afghan war. There was a very real threat that Pakistan could fall to the terrorist thru an overthrow thereby losing posession of their nuclear arsenal. To offset this the US was given Pakistans arming protocols. No one can fire a single pakistani nuclear weapon without the US override codes.
Who knows when, if ever, this will change? Probably not on Bush's watch.
Posted by: Tom Wall at May 27, 2006 10:15 PMThis is the World Government redefining sovereignity.
Posted by: Lou Gots at May 27, 2006 11:12 PM