Haldiram
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@vampyrbladez sirji I was talking about nuclear power plants, not nuclear bombs. The bomb detonation offer from Kennedy was a negotiating bluff, just to test your intention to see whether you are itching to build a bomb or not. In that instance, Nehru was right to deny it. Even Vajpayee got an offer from the US to do computer simulated tests if we promised not to do real tests. He refused and went ahead with real tests. They offer things to you as a means to deter its indigenous development. Even today, they are offering us to stop Thorium research. One shouldn't fault Modi for refusing that offer. They are not our well-wishers.
For a new country to pass a bill on nuclear energy in its first year of independence was a very visionary move. Our scientists like Homi Bhabha were working on it since 1930s and were obviously under CIA assassination list so they didn't want India to learn those skills. Still India pursued it. That was the most "non-slave-like" thing a chaploos like Nehru did in his life. We had made headways in nuclear research since 30's. He could have easily closed it to please his White masters, like Morarji Desai crushed RAW, but destiny was on our side and he institutionalized it and provided funding for its expansion. Galti se kuch toh accha kiya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India :
For a new country to pass a bill on nuclear energy in its first year of independence was a very visionary move. Our scientists like Homi Bhabha were working on it since 1930s and were obviously under CIA assassination list so they didn't want India to learn those skills. Still India pursued it. That was the most "non-slave-like" thing a chaploos like Nehru did in his life. We had made headways in nuclear research since 30's. He could have easily closed it to please his White masters, like Morarji Desai crushed RAW, but destiny was on our side and he institutionalized it and provided funding for its expansion. Galti se kuch toh accha kiya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India :
By 1939, Meghnad Saha, the Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta, had recognised the significance of the discovery of nuclear fission, and had begun to conduct various experiments in his laboratory related to nuclear physics. In 1940, he incorporated nuclear physics into the university's post-graduate curriculum.[14] In the same year, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust sanctioned funds for installing a cyclotron at the University of Calcutta, but various difficulties likely related to the war delayed the project.[15]
In 1944, Homi J. Bhabha, a distinguished nuclear physicist who had established a research school at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, wrote a letter to his distant cousin J. R. D. Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group. He requested funds to establish a research institute of fundamental physics, "with special reference to cosmic rays and nuclear physics." The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) was inaugurated in Mumbai the following year.