Re:Why America Needs India’s Rockets
by mmmBacon on Thursday November 03, 2016 @11:19AM
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The first strike policy is irrelevant in this context. What matters is capability and parity. If a country develops a nuclear capability that they didn't have before, in his case weapon delivery, this is proliferation. This puts pressure on other states to come to parity with that new capability. In this case that pressure would be likely on Pakistan.
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This western view of Pakistani "parity" is mother of all nuisance. US literally funded Pakistani proliferation with billions of aid, which every one knew was being diverted, while those guys were hiding Osama in their cantonment. Yes, Pakistan would be eating grass if it were not Saudi and American aid.
There is also reason to believe that the CIA snuffed out Bhabha.
It's admirable that while the China obtained its tech from USSR, India led by Homi Bhabha used a civilian Canadian reactor to do it all by themselves.
And the sad part is all of this happened as Pakistanis were killing and aiding those killing American soldiers.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-pakistan-policy...