Design and Engineering of Agni VI missile is finished

[no smoking]

However I have said before and I repeat that India does not believe in threatening tones.

Of course, India just spends billions of dollars every year on something, she "believes" that could not threat.
Oh, please, the possession of nuclear weapons is a "threatening tones" already.

India understands the futility of nuclear war. This is the reason India decided to abandon use of tactical nuclear weapons.

Please, please stop putting yourself on the moral highground.
The reasons you give up tactical nuclear weapons are:
1. You are facing an overwhelming conventional force that need tactical nuke;
2. Just like China, you don't have the amount of money to build the necessary number of tactical nuke.

We know that USA, Russia and China have different operational doctrines. Nuclear choices are very difficult, and have been arrived at after a lot of discussion.

No, China has the same operational doctrine on nuclear weapon. You can read India nuclear doctrine as a weaken vision of Chinese policy.

 

[garg_bharat]

@no smoking, India sees nukes as a means of retribution rather than as a means of war fighting. Hopefully these billions of dollars spent will keep the peace.

The money spent on nukes is blown up by the media. The actual is less not more.

Indian press is hopelessly jingoistic and Government has to keep silent.

 

[no smoking]

@no smoking, India sees nukes as a means of retribution rather than as a means of war fighting. Hopefully these billions of dollars spent will keep the peace.

Ok, my friend, when you are talking about "retribution", you are meaning "threat".

The money spent on nukes is blown up by the media. The actual is less not more.
Indian press is hopelessly jingoistic and Government has to keep silent.

No, we don't need to look into your media. We all went through the same period before.
Considering the scale of India current nuclear force, 110 warheads in stock and 5-6 new each years, the still on-going R&D, infrastructure projects, I would say that is an underestimation of your spending.

 

[sorcerer]

Agni Missile Steel Now From Durgapur

The Alloy Steel Plant (ASP) in Durgapur has come up with an alternative to 'Maraging Steel' that is used in the outer motor casing of Agni missiles.
Durgapur: The Alloy Steel Plant (ASP) in Durgapur has come up with an alternative to 'Maraging Steel' that is used in the outer motor casing of Agni missiles.

This will not only help save valuable foreign exchange but also increase India's indigenous capability. The import and export of Maraging Steel are closely monitored as it is primarily used in weapons systems.

Maraging Steel is an alloy containing up to 25% nickel and other metals, strengthened by slow cooling and age hardening. An ASP spokesperson told TOI that the alternative developed by the unit has ultra-high-strength and fracture toughness required for missile manufacture.

"The steel was melt and cast at ASP for the first time in the country meeting stringent quality requirements, followed by rolling and annealing at Rourkela Steel Plant. About 106 ton of these plates were supplied to the ministry of defense for heat treatment and fabrication to produce outer motor casings for Agni missiles," the spokesperson added.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...el-now-from-Durgapur/articleshow/54159620.cms

 

[HariPrasad-1]

before 1998, you got ZERO nuclear missile pointing at you; after 1998, you got 100 nuclear missiles pointing at you any minute.

Who told you this???

In a conversation with US president , our Ex PM I K Gujaral told told bill Clinton that china has targeted Nuclear missile on india in Tibet in 1997. so what you say is factually incorrect. Even Pakistan had nukes before 1998 and there is no need to say that they are india specific.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Santhanam, who was director for 1998 test site preparation, should be considered directly related to the test.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-successful-Scientist/articleshow/4938610.cms

Santhanam is not even a nuclear scientist. The AEC boss kakodkar has given a point wise reply to each and every concern raised by santhanam.

 

[no smoking]

Who told you this???

In a conversation with US president , our Ex PM I K Gujaral told told bill Clinton that china has targeted Nuclear missile on india in Tibet in 1997.

Really?
Didn't Bill reply:" You are a liar! We know where those nuclear warheads are. None of them are mated to the missile. By the way, there is no missile in Tibet, because all Chinese missiles are deployed in her east coast and targeting us!"

so what you say is factually incorrect. Even Pakistan had nukes before 1998 and there is no need to say that they are india specific.

The fact that they hold the test until India did it tells us that they are India specific.

 

[Nicky G]

Why are people here so interested in justifying our nuclear program to a Chinese of all people? A country driven by a madman who starved 60 million to death whom he should have been feeding. Instead the mad state was driven to build the bomb and try to have parity with the west.

What the Chinese think of our program is of no relevance at all. They can block NSG all they wish to, it matters little considering we get most the benefits anyway.

 

[no smoking]

Santhanam is not even a nuclear scientist.

Really?
Let's have a look of his background:

Between 1961 and 1963, Santhanam went to the US, under the Atoms for Peace programme, studying nuclear physics at the Arbonne National Laboratory in Lamont, Illinois.

In 1986, Santhanam joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), where his assignments were apparently related to simulation, war-gaming, and software engineering. But, because of his old relationship with the BARC’s bomb-makers, Santhanam was covertly back-ending India’s nuclear programme. From his DRDO perch, he interacted with the PMO and liaised with the armed forces to prepare the Pokhran test sites for the 1998 tests. His BARC background and his experience with RAW made him perfect for the job.

Well, to me, this man is a nuclear scientist.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Between 1961 and 1963, Santhanam went to the US, under the Atoms for Peace programme, studying nuclear physics at the Arbonne National Laboratory in Lamont, Illinois.

This means he has no degree in nuclear physics. I think he has his masters in bio chemistry or some similar topic as I had read somewhere.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Really?
Didn't Bill reply:" You are a liar! We know where those nuclear warheads are. None of them are mated to the missile. By the way, there is no missile in Tibet, because all Chinese missiles are deployed in her east coast and targeting us!"

Even at the time of major military exercise in the time general K. Sunder ji in 1987 (Operation brasstacks), Main aim of the exercise was to prepare for tactical nuclear strategy, overseen by the Indian Army. This means that India was facing nuclear threat well back in 1987 forget about 1998. Butto had way back declared that they will make Nukes even by eating grass for 1000 years. Pakistan was well on its way to getting or perhaps got Nukes by eighties. That is why they could test them in numbers just within a month from our test. So read first before advocating either your ignorant views or your writing with some specific design.

Who told you that China have not aimed Nuclear weapons at India in Tibet or other place way back in eighties and nineties? Discuss with reference.

read thiswhat indra Kumar Gujaral had said in royal institute of international affairs.;

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sc3tGB8zXqcC&pg=PA74&dq=Gujaral+clinton+nuclear+bomb+china+aimed+at+india&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV9PTtnInQAhVGRo8KHZC7DB8Q6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=Gujaral clinton nuclear bomb china aimed at india&f=false

 

[no smoking]

This means he has no degree in nuclear physics. I think he has his masters in bio chemistry or some similar topic as I had read somewhere.

He learned nuclear physics, worked in nuclear physics for years and he was the director of the nuclear test at the time. He is definitely qualified for a nuclear scientist.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

He learned nuclear physics, worked in nuclear physics for years and he was the director of the nuclear test at the time. He is definitely qualified for a nuclear scientist.

Even experts on DFI aren't military professionals, did he held Ph.D.?

 

[no smoking]

Even at the time of major military exercise in the time general K. Sunder ji in 1987 (Operation brasstacks), Main aim of the exercise was to prepare for tactical nuclear strategy, overseen by the Indian Army. This means that India was facing nuclear threat well back in 1987 forget about 1998.

Doesn't prove your point. In 1987, the whole world was still stuck in the cold war. It would be strange that the army of any major country didn't carry out exercise in nuclear scenario. And we all know Chinese doesn't have tactical nuclear weapon even today. Their nuclear missiles were barely accurate enough to target city instead of military target. If India really worried about Chinese nuclear threat, they should've done the drill of post-nuclear strike aid in the major cities, did they do that? NO.

Butto had way back declared that they will make Nukes even by eating grass for 1000 years. Pakistan was well on its way to getting or perhaps got Nukes by eighties. That is why they could test them in numbers just within a month from our test. So read first before advocating either your ignorant views or your writing with some specific design.

Having a nuclear explosion equipment ready for test is not from having nuclear weapon. I guess you should know that.

Who told you that China have not aimed Nuclear weapons at India in Tibet or other place way back in eighties and nineties? Discuss with reference.

read thiswhat indra Kumar Gujaral had said in royal institute of international affairs.;

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sc3tGB8zXqcC&pg=PA74&dq=Gujaral+clinton+nuclear+bomb+china+aimed+at+india&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV9PTtnInQAhVGRo8KHZC7DB8Q6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=Gujaral clinton nuclear bomb china aimed at india&f=false

Simple:
1. before the Tibet railway being built, the infrastructure in Tibet didn't allow Chinese to deploy her ballistic missile there.
2. In 1980s, Chinese were threatened by 50 soviet divisions supported by more than 2000 nuclear warheads; In 1990s, it was American becoming their major concern, a single US nuclear submarine carries more warheads than the whole Chinese nuclear force. Each of them were far beyond the class of Chinese. Chinese didn't have spare warheads for India at all.

Read this report:
https://project2049.net/documents/chinas_nuclear_warhead_storage_and_handling_system.pdf

 

[Khagesh]

Ok, my friend, when you are talking about "retribution", you are meaning "threat".

No it implies 'consequential threat'. There is a chronology involved.

But regards your respect for K. Santhanam as a scientists, you are spot on. If degrees could provide scientific capability then there is nothing to worry about in this world. Whatever the graduate degree K. Santhanam had he was a scientist. And even if some people remain hung up on graduate degrees then they can refer the following link which mentions a lot of Ex-BARC names most of whom did neutron counting for their living since there childhood.

http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1865.html
[STARTQUOTE]beyond all reasonable doubt, that the H-bomb tested on May 11, 1998 failed.

Signatories to the Statement

1. Dr P.K. Iyengar, former Chairman Atomic Energy Commission, Director BARC and a key architect of the Pokhran-I nuclear test of May 18, 1974 and internationally acknowledged as India’s top nuclear weapons expert;
(2) Prof Ashok Parthasarathi, former Science Adviser to Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for many years and Secretary of many major Scientific Departments of Government of India;
(3) Dr A.N. Prasad, former Director, BARC and Member (R&D) of the Atomic Energy Commission, a former Senior Adviser to the IAEA, Vienna for many years on nuclear safeguards, and a key member of India’s orginal weapons grade plutonium exrtraction technology development since inception in 1960 and a former Commissioner of UN MOVIC (UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) for disarming Iraq of Weapons of Mass Destruction;
(4) K. Santhanam, Chief Adviser (Technologies), DRDO and Project Coordinator of Pokhran-II Series of Nuclear Weapon Tests;
(5) Dr A. Gopalakrishnan, one of the key Technology Directors of our Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV) project for several years, which developed the indiogenous nuclear submarine Arihant and former Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Boad;
(6) Dr C.K. Mathews, former Head, Radio Chemistry Division, BARC and Director Chemistry Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam;
(7) Dr Jaipal Mittal, Raja Ramana Fellow and former Director, Chemistry Group, BARC;
(8) Dr A.D. Damodaran, former Director, Special Materials Plant, Nuclear Fuel Complex and former Director, Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram;
(9) Dr S.R. Valluri, former Director, National Aerospace Laboratory and first Director General of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the organisation specially set up to design and develop the Light Combat Aircraft—Tejas;
(10) Rear Admiral J.J. Baxi, former Director, Weapons and Electronics Systems Organisation, Ministry of Defence and Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Electronics Ltd.;
(11) Dr K.S. Jayaraman, formerly Nuclear Physics Division, BARC, Science Correspondent of the PTI for many years, Science Correspondent for South Asia for the leading international journal Nature and President, Indian Science Writers’ Association.
[UNQUOTE]

 

[bengalraider]

Think this way: before 1998, you got ZERO nuclear missile pointing at you; after 1998, you got 100 nuclear missiles pointing at you any minute.

Did you improve your security?

We had nukes pointed at us from the mid 1960's.