INDIA'S NUCLEAR TESTS EXPOSE NUCLEAR
DUPLICITY/HYPOCRISY OF THE NUCLEAR-CLUB
By S.P. Attri (USA)
Date: 23 May 98
1. For several days in a row now, a torrent of news communique has
been blasting the air waves of the world that India conducted
underground nuclear tests. Resulting reactions, which are of
varied shades and hues, have started to pour in and they are
generally characteristic of the source of the commentator. That
there was more than substantial justification for these tests
cannot be a point in dispute when it is realized what kind of
neighborhood India has, with two belligerant and bellicose
neighbors, both nuclear and missile-armed and both having
committed open and active aggression and wars of conquest against
India & both of whom, at this time, continue to put on view,
hostile and belligerant behaviour toward India. Simply put, India
finds itself ringed by bristling belligerant missiles and nuclear
warheads.
2. One of the two neighbors, the nuclear-armed China, committed
armed aggression against India in 1962 and to this date, continues
to illegally occupy large tracts of Indian territory in the
Himalayas and continues to display hostile manifestations.
Further, the border problem with China remains unresolved due to
the intransigence and expansionist mentality of the Chinese. The
other antagonistic country, the overtly nuclear and missile-armed
Pakistan has carried out three wars of aggression against India
and for over a decade, has been conducting proxy wars, from across
the border, into several areas of India especially Panjab and
Kashmir. In its aggressive pursuits, Pakistan has been receiving a
goodly amount of material help and collaboration from the Chinese,
including but not limited to nuclear and missile technology. It
needs to be unmistakably understood that the on-going military
modernisation program of China has a technological spin-off effect
on Pakistan. A ballistic missile like the Ghauri, which is the
product of this overt and malevolent collaboration, has tremendous
political and psychological effect besides its military potential.
Its nuclear component cannot be ignored either.
3. Reports have been steadily coming in that a massive electronic
surveillance system is being set up by the Chinese on the Coco
islands, near the Andaman and Nicobar islands of India. These
islands are Burmese territory but China is taking them on loan
from the Burmese. With the already massive establishment of
electronic surveillance that the Chinese have installed there, the
Chinese are now monitoring and measuring everything in India and
rumors are afloat that the Chinese intend to convert this
surveillance establishment into a major naval base, which would
directly threaten India.
4. Because of the build up of these threat elements, the security
situation has been degenerating and deteriorating steadily and an
urgent Security and Threat Review by India could not be deferred
any more. During the Security Review, the Defense Review Council
of India began to show extremely serious security concerns because
of so many countries around India, with nuclear- capable missiles
and encircling arsenal of hostile armaments, missiles, and
warheads specifically aimed and targeted at India. The Defense
Review Council conveyed its grave concerns to the Prime Minister
along with recommended steps to develop countermeasure deterrents.
5. India had exploded a nuclear device in 1974 but since that time
has practised a self-imposed moratorium on testing on Moral
Grounds, in the pious hope of achieving nuclear weapons total
elimination from the world, on the basis of justice and
evenhandedness. It is because of the absence of justice that India
rejects the present Non-Proliferation (NPT) treaty and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) because of their
Discriminatory Basis and has instead desired a totally
Non-Discriminatory Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty & Total
Elimination and Destruction of all nuclear weapons from the world.
India opposes the CTBT treaty as presently drafted, which gives
some countries unfair rights, such as the God-given right of some
countries to be nuclear powers ( and depriving others of such
rights) and holding a veto over everyone else. Inspite of such
exemplifications of blatant injustices, India has exercised its
self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing for 24 years, longer
than any other nuclear-capable nation. But grave threats and needs
of adequate defense could not be ignored or deferred any longer.
6. After failing, through 24 years of relentless but fruitless
efforts to get the nuclear-club of nuclear-have nations, to
eliminate the nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD), India
reluctantly carried out its underground nuclear tests on 11 May 98
and on 13 May 98. Like the previous detonation of 1974, these new
tests of 1998, were well-contained and there was no release of
radioactivity into the atmosphere. These new tests of 1998 put
India's cards on the table and establish India as a full-fledged
nuclear and thermo-nuclear capable weaponized state. The number of
tests conducted by India has been deliberately kept down but
provide an essential database for nuclear and thermo-nuclear
weapon design of various yields, applications, and delivery
systems. Computer Simulations are expected to follow which will be
supplemented by sub-critical experiments, if needed.
7. After these nuclear tests, it makes no sense at all not to
induct nuclear weapons. Obvious Conclusion: Go all the way, it is
too late to turn back, it is now or never. The Hindu Worm has
turned and it will not tolerate hypocrisy much longer. You can
talk of peace only when you can thwart any attack on your country
from any source and from any direction. Simply stated, India needs
to be a nuclear power.
In this context, the ideology of Hindutva is gaining more and more
popularity now. Why? Because everything else that has been tried
before in India for the last 50 years has failed to produce the
desired results. Now people are coming in droves to join the ranks
of Hindutva despite the malicious propaganda of
falsehood-manufacturers who continue to run down Hinduism as
superstitious, backward, and regressive religion.
8. It needs to be clearly understood that the nuclear-club of
"Five Nuclear-Have Nations" has become a Global Bully,
dominating every global forum, unilaterally writing rules of
international and internal behavior & toppling and installing
regimes at will. No body can challenge their writ because they are
the nuclear powers and they are in charge of global agencies.
Instead of promoting justice and evenhandedness, they want to hang
on to their privileges while disarming the rest of the world. NPT
regime is in their best interest and a Universal Ban On Nuclear
Weapons is their Worst Nightmare.
9. Regarding Pakistan: The stated policy of the US (and of West,
in general) is to treat both India and Pakistan equally. What this
amounts to is to equate a nation of one billion people with a
nation of 130 million people. What nonsense? Since 1950, the US
has time and again, shown that it is wedded deeply to Pakistan or
else Pakistan would not have survived this long. To keep Pakistain
militarily equal to India, the US has endeavored to arm Pakistan.
By doing this, the US has done justice neither to India (a
democracy) nor to itself ( another democracy). Instead and in
fact, we see a conniving policy of the West of active appeasement
of Pakistan and its Islamic fundamentalism in order to destabilize
India. West has been using Pakistan for extortion and political
blackmail against India. West does not want to see the Pakistani
Nuclear Bomb (the Islamic Bomb) but it wants to use the Islamic
Pakistan and its Islamic Fundamentalism to cut India to size. So
far the West has succeeded in doing just that. Pakistan and
Kashmir are startling embodiments of blackmail and extortion
against India. So much so that inspite of being the largest
democracy in the world, India cannot even win a permanent seat in
the UN Security Council.
10. India has found out that when it did not declare its nuclear
capability, the world ignored it completely. We can understand why
India wanted a "nuclear deterrent" and we denounce the
US for contemplating sanctions against India. It is unfortunate
that India was forced to join the "Mad Race" but
understand the need for it. We live in a world dominated by the
West. The US was responsible for introducing nuclear weapons to
the world and now wants to be the only power with such weapons.
11. From the above we can only deduce that in order to become a
superpower, India has to have nuclear weapons. The nuclear
weaponization of India is now a reality, no longer a fantasy
whether the world accepts it or not. The country of India has been
taken over by nuclear euphoria and it is seriously doubtful if the
defense establishement of India would back away now from deterrent
capability. Lessons learned after 1974 are pretty hard to forget.
Look at what has been happening to Indians for 50 years. We have a
belligerant Pakistan that first captured one half of a piece of
territory in India, and it persists in encouraging terrorism. For
reasons of it own, China helps Pakistan build missiles and nukes,
while declaring at the same time that it "wants peace."
We, the "nice guys", the "Gandhis" are being
trod upon. But not any more! It is now India's destiny to become a
Super-Power and come to think of it, that is the best thing that
can happen as far as the US is concerned. If USA plays its cards
right, a nuclear and friendly India is far better for the US than
an expansionist China. India now counterbalances China, which was
upto now the only nuclear power in Asia. Not any longer!
12. China seems to be a good black-mailer. Despite its atrocious
and unexcusable human rights record and despite its bully nature,
it is not under any strict sanction from the US. The Greedy USA
and the Western powers need India just as bad, if not more, than
China. They only speak the language of money. India has the
largest middle class in the world, it is larger than China's
middle class. It behoves the US and the West to stop their
bickering and non-stop condemnation of India's tests and instead
see the reasons behind the actions that India took. There should
no doubt in any body's mind that USA realizes pretty well that if
they push India into a corner, then India will just blast its way
out. It is because of this realization that we see all that praise
of India being a great nation, coming out of Clinton's mouth
concurrently with his nuclear test criticism of India. Besides,
there are lots of powerful US congressmen who do not agree with
the US sanctions. Former Secretary Of State, Henry Kissinger,
stated on CNN, that sanctions are not a good idea, they are only
symbolic to make a point, but they should not be prolonged.
Nobel-peace prize winner and God-King of the Tibetans, Dalai Lama,
said that Developed Countries have no right to tell the Developing
Countries what weapons they should have. Newt Gingrich, the
Speaker Of The US House Of Representatives, supports India and
says that Clinton has gone completely overboard in his criticism
and policy towards India. Newt wants US treatment of China &
India to be on par, and wants sanctions being imposed on China
while they are being imposed on India. He expresses amazement at
the situation where a dictatorial China was fine but a democratic
India was bad.
France and Russia are not keen on sanctions at all. Britain is
ambiguous. On 21 May 98, the Non-Aligned Nations (NAM) slammed the
nuclear weapon states for hindering the process of nuclear-free
world and declared that peace & security was essential for the
development of member states. In a significant approval of India's
nuclear policy, the NAM foreign ministers severely criticized the
big powers for maintaining monopoly over nuclear weapons and
described their stand as highly discriminatory.
13. Nine US Banks have submitted a Comprehensive White Paper on
" Interpretation" on Sanctions to the US Treasury. The
White Paper calls for a lenient interpretation of the Sanctions.
Several US Banks, notably Citibank and Bank Of New York, are
extending credit to Indian Banks, despite the imposition of US
sanctions. The European Banks have indicated to the Indian Banks
that they are ready to move in if the US banks fail to provide
credit to the Indians.
14. Regarding Pakistan: Pakistan should treat Indian tests as a
warning and IMMEDIATELY stop playing with Kashmir. Enough is
enough and India could quickly declare war on its shameful
neighbor and show it the place where it belongs. It is hoped that
Pakistan remembers the defeat of 1971. A credible action of proxy
wars across the states of Rajasthan & Gujerat could drown
Pakistan into fatal consequences. India's ability to have a
credible nuclear deterrent capability is always useful in such
situations.
How sophisticated is India's nuke technology? Answer:
Sophisticated enough to get rid of Pakistan for good!
Pakistan, if it has any nukes at all and uses it against India,
would be immediately annihilated.
It is about time for Pakistan to realize, while there is time,
that India has the capability to counter and eliminate their
terrorism in Kashmir once and for all. In this connection, the
Indian government has given its warning to Pakistan that they will
not accept "the on-going proxy war launched by Islamabad
against India in Kashmir." Indian Parliamentary Minister,
Madan Lal Khurana says," We have tolerated Pakistan's
mischief for 50 years. Enough is enough. We cannot tolerate it any
further."
15. To Sum Up: For decades, India has maintained an ambiguous
nuclear stand. India finally stopped prevaricating and preaching
high morality on nuclear issues, and demonstrated its capability
to explode a range of necessary explosive devices, including a
low-yield bomb & a high yield thermo-nuclear device on 11 May
98. Two more sub-kiloton tests followed on 13 May 98. These tests
will provide the Indian scientists with enough raw data to further
improve the design of detonating mechanisms and study the behavior
of nuclear matter. Much more than that, however, reaction of the
Nuclear-Haves to India's nuclear tests have denuded the Nuclear
Hypocrisy of the Nuclear-Club. The reaction of the Big Five, US,
Britain, France, Russia, & China reveals nothing but their
Basic Duplicity and Hypocrisy. It is like their saying," Do
as we say, not as we do."
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