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FIGURE 12 FUTURE ALTERNATIVES TO INDIA'S FORCE-IN-BEING
opposed to incremental steps, the only thing that can be said safely at this point
is that India's force-in-being still remains a 'work-in-progress' whose final
disposition cannot yet be definitively ascertained.
NOTES
1.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, 'XII Lok Sabha (Lower House of
Parliament) Debates', Session II, 27 May 1998.
2.
This phrase has been repeatedly used by Indian leaders as a slogan to define their
conception of the country's future nuclear capabilities. See, Mahesh Uniyal, 'No
cap on fissile material, says Vajpayee',
India Abroad,
25 Dec. 1998.
3.
The evolution of this complex relationship is best described in George Perkovich,
India's
Nuclear Bomb
(Berkeley: University of California Press 1999), and in Itty
Abraham,
The
Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Post-
Colonial State
(New York: Zed 1998).
4.
See, by way of example, the P-5 and the G-8 statements issued in the aftermath of
the May 1998 nuclear tests and, especially,
Security Council Resolution 1172
(1998) on
International Peace and Security,
adopted by the UN Security Council at
its 3890th Meeting on 6 June 1998, available at www.un.org/Docs/scres/1998/
sres1172.htm.
5.
See, for example, Kamal Mitra Chenoy, 'India should beat the nuclear club, not
join it',
The
Asian Age,
23 July 1998; Praful Bidwai, 'Sign the Test Ban Treaty',
