Indian Nuclear Policy (Oxford India Short Introductions Series) by Harsh V. Pant & Yogesh Joshi

Author:Harsh V. Pant & Yogesh Joshi [Pant, Harsh V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
ISBN: 9780199489022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-16T07:00:00+00:00

*Some sections of this chapter are based on Joshi (2018).

1 NMML (1974b).

2 Interview with a senior retired Indian diplomat, New Delhi, September 2017.

3 For Desai’s nuclear policy, see Gupta (1978) and Kapur (1978).

4 For a discussion on Desai’s security policy, see Thomas (1980).

5 US Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, ‘Indira Gandhi’s Letter to Bhutto’, 29 May 1974, available at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974NEWDE07109_b.html.

6 NAI (1976).

7 NAI (1976).

8 NAI (1977a).

9 For when Indian intelligence came to know about Kahuta enrichment plant, see Kasturi (1995). One of the reasons for this intelligence blackout was that the new Morarji Desai government had severely curtailed the finances and functioning of India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). See Raina (1981).

10 NAI (1977b).

11 NAI (1977c).

12 For an Indian assessment of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, see Dixit (2002).

13 NAI (1982).

14 NAI (1981). All quotes in the para are from this source.

15 Interview with Dr K. Santhanam, New Delhi, 16 December 2015.

16 Interview with a senior Indian diplomat, New Delhi, September 2017.

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