“I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.” ThinkingFeelsStatesNaturalIndiaIsraelNuclearAshamedAlliesEmergingSuperpowerSatellitesGroveling Author:Arundhati Roy
“Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.” MotivationEnergyRolesSecuritySourceKeysEssentialsIndiaStrategyCleanNuclearNuclear EnergyEnergy SecurityReliable Sources Author:Narendra Modi
“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.” MadeShowsPoliticalCoursesStudyCostWeaponsArgumentIndiaBurdenMythNuclearBudgetsContributionNuclear WeaponsUnbearableCredibleDeterrentDemolishPolitical Arguments Author:Subramanian Swamy
“I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.” ThinkingTermDecisionWeaponsConsequenceIndiaInternationalChinaNuclearFactorsCapabilityNuclear WeaponsPakistanPrestige Author:Subramanian Swamy
“Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.” StatesTodayWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Abdul Kalam
“I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.” FeelsFirstsComfortableIndiaEnvironmentalCriticalNuclearPhysicsTheoreticalImplicationsTheoretical PhysicsBreedersNuclear Physics Author:Vandana Shiva
“India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.” ShouldDreamWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsOur Dreams Author:Abdul Kalam
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.” PoliticalCultureCausesPovertyEventsCreationVictoryWeaponsIndiaNuclearPsychologicalIndianNuclear WeaponsPakistanRiotCleansingEthnic CleansingProliferationHavocIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.” TwoIndiaIntellectNuclearIndianAttributesRegimesEntityInferiorsDominantPakistanManipulatePredictableNuclear PowerMystiqueLineageIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.” IfsEnergyPathSecurityDevelopmentIndiaAddAccessNuclearMarchNuclear EnergyEnergy Security Author:Manmohan Singh
“I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.” LooksIndiaNuclearLook UpCooperationHistoricReconciliation Author:Manmohan Singh
“I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveOrderCasesSkillsUniqueIndiaNuclearExceptional Author:Manmohan Singh
“The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.” TwoImportantCountryIndiaNuclearPakistanConfrontationTwo Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayIdeasWarCountryHandsMightHappensMiddleWeaponsConcernedIndiaIsraelEastNuclearTerroristWorriedMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsFlashOther CountriesPakistanVaryNuclear WarIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.” CountryViewsCasesClearWeaponsIndiaNuclearSignificantElitesNuclear WeaponsTicketsPakistanPrestigeIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.” YearsCountryLastsIndiaIsraelNuclearPakistanKoreaNorth KoreaTreatiesProliferationProliferation Treaty Author:John Burroughs
“The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now, when there's artillery being exchanged in Kashmir - which is not for from here, either - and there are 100-ish nuclear weapons on each side of the border, there's never really been a case like this where two nuclear armed countries are happily shelling each other.” LongTwoCountrySidesCasesDangerousRight NowWeaponsIndiaNuclearBordersNuclear WeaponsUnfortunatePakistanAnimosityArtilleryKashmirIndia And Pakistan Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryAmericaDangerousWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsDeceivingPakistanDangerous WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.” ThinkingWayHas BeensTwoAmericaNationsViolenceBloodProtectProjectsWeaponsIndiaClimateClimate ChangeNuclearDestroyedFranceGermanyBritainAustraliaNuclear WeaponsPakistanAnnihilationBelgiumGreat NationsIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.” TwoImportantCountryAbleEffortDangerousDevelopmentWeaponsIndiaNuclearIndianImmensePakistanConfrontationTollsTwo Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.” IfsHas BeensSelfCountryUseWould BeEnergyGivenDealsGenerationsTenDegreesIndiaIncreaseNuclearOur CountryFuelReasonableRequirementsFoldsThrustSelf SufficiencyNuclear PowerSufficiencyUranium Author:Abdul Kalam
“We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.” PresidentIndiaChinaDefenseNuclearUrgesPakistanPresident BushMissilesArsenalIndia And PakistanMissile Defense Author:Anna Lindh
“There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.” ShouldFirstsCountryNationsUnitedExampleTestsIndiaNuclearProtestTestingUnited NationsCornyBansBravoNuclear Testing Author:Martha Smith
“It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.” WorldStatesStepsWeaponsIndiaTablesIncludingIsraelNuclearRussiaConcreteNuclear WeaponsDefinitePakistanDisarmamentAbolitionIndia And Pakistan Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world.” WorldEnergyProgramIndiaNuclearAmbitiousInnovativeNuclear Energy Author:Siegfried Hecker