How India Was Forced To Conduct The Nuclear Tests Of 1998 – Analysis

By Manoj Joshi*

After its lone nuclear weapon test of 1974, New Delhi had long adopted a nuclear strategy of ambiguity. It had the wherewithal to test but did not do so. Many names were given to the policy, “recessed deterrence”, “non weaponised deterrence”, and so on. But in the 1990s, pressure on India to test came...