Large Nuclear Ambitions Denied
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From Times Wire Reports
India does not intend to build a large nuclear arsenal or create an elaborate command and control system to manage the weapons, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in the wake of his country’s five underground nuclear tests last month. The United States and other nuclear powers have been attempting to persuade rivals India and Pakistan to end the nuclear tests each of them has conducted recently and refrain from building and deploying nuclear weapons systems.
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