Vishwarupa
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Did we face the same pressure that Iran is facing now.
We have been under pressure from 70s. But the thing is both times we tested, it caught everyone off guard. So no there was no pressure on India as it has been on Iran. We faced sanctions after the tests and pretty comfortably rode over them.Did we face the same pressure that Iran is facing now.
and 14 years later they get fighter jet dealFrance
France has criticized India but said it opposed US sanctions and will not apply its own.
(International Herald Tribune, 14 May 98)
1) Earlier or Later? We tried earlier but the Amercians got a whiff and PV Narasimha Rao had to back off. We learnt from that and made sure we didn't make any mistake the next time.There are still a few things about the tests that are questionable?
1. The timing of the tests could a better time have been chosen? When?
2. Why wasn't there a larger warhead tested in the many that were tested?
3. Why didn't India ask to be recognized as a nuclear weapon state in bush
Nuclear deal? Which came as a result of the test.
No it did not. There are no restrictions on tech transfer between nuclear weapons states and that includes China which is excluded from all other strategic technologies. If the Chinese wish to obtain the latest in ENR tech, they can buy it for a price. We cannot with the latest NSG clauses. We are not a recognized NWS, not de-facto, not anything. The nuclear deal was signed as a purely transactional business deal, with India gaining fuel access and the West gaining reactor market access.lethalforce, everyone works under compulsions, US included. when you work for decades trying to undermine a country's need for nukes, it's hard to change tune overnight when the NPA's in high places would holler from rooftops.
the deal did give us de-facto NWS status.
With this deal more or less killed by Obama I wonder if we are really bound to the original terms (testing)orNo it did not. There are no restrictions on tech transfer between nuclear weapons states and that includes China which is excluded from all other strategic technologies. If the Chinese wish to obtain the latest in ENR tech, they can buy it for a price. We cannot with the latest NSG clauses. We are not a recognized NWS, not de-facto, not anything. The nuclear deal was signed as a purely transactional business deal, with India gaining fuel access and the West gaining reactor market access.
1) Earlier or Later? We tried earlier but the Amercians got a whiff and PV Narasimha Rao had to back off. We learnt from that and made sure we didn't make any mistake the next time.
2) coz we didnt need to. The tests were scaled downed version of what would be a 200KT device. We could not explode anything bigger as it would have affected pur population there.
3) Subtle but it was there. It recognized us as a country with advanced nuke tech. Take the nuke deal and keep your weapons too!!
@Yusuf and everybody else how we were able to rode over sanctions and what were sanctions and was there a UN specific sanction or only country specific sanctionsWe have been under pressure from 70s. But the thing is both times we tested, it caught everyone off guard. So no there was no pressure on India as it has been on Iran. We faced sanctions after the tests and pretty comfortably rode over them.