Given this context, the contention that the need to test again is contingent on what might happen in the future is specious. It is the current imbalance that mandates urgent attention.
As the political fires rage and calculators are furiously punched for answers to questions of coalition arithmetic, India must not lose sight of the bigger goal. Where do we as a nation want to be by 2020-2050 and what type of strategic nuclear weapons capability do we need to conform to the status we aspire for? From this vision must emerge the milestones that we will traverse.
The writer is former director general, artillery
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