describe the evolution of india's nuclear policy.
Answers
Answer:
The basic principle of India's nuclear doctrine is "No First Use". According to this policy, nuclear weapons will only be used in retaliation against a nuclear attack on the Indian Territory or on Indian forces anywhere. 2. India needs to build and maintain a Credible Minimum Deterrent.
Explanation:
At the height of the Cold War, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) founded the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) in 1980 under the leadership of W.K.H. Panofsky. Many back channel dialogues were held under its aegis with Soviet (later Russian) scientists on issues of nuclear deterrence, arms control and related matters. Eight years later, the Vice-President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Prof. Eduardo Amaldi initiated a European version of the Committee by founding the Working Group on International Security and Arms Control (SICA) in 1988. Meetings of SICA were renamed the Amaldi Conferences after Prof. Amaldi’s death.[1]
Prof. Roddam Narasimha, former member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) played a significant role in the formulations of NSAB’s Draft Report on our Nuclear Doctrine.[2] He gave an invited lecture on ‘Evolution of India’s Nuclear Policy’ at the XIII International Amaldi Conference on Problems of Global Security, held in Rome over November 30-December 2, 2000.
The text of Professor Narasimha’s Amaldi lecture – although sporadically cited – is regrettably not widely available or acknowledged enough, in India or abroad. In redress, in attached is the full text of Prof. Narasimha’s lecture, reproduced with the permission of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Professor Narasimha dilates on the lead-up to his Amaldi Lecture thus:
In 1997 or so, a team from the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) came to India to explore the possibility of having periodic dialogues with their counterparts here. They had discussions with the Indian National Science Aacademy (INSA) at Delhi, then came to Bangalore for a meeting that I arranged at the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc). While at Bangalore the team had necessarily to parley with me several times, and we discussed what research-based studies were being pursued at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). There were more studies and activities on strategic issues and other related policy matters at NIAS than in the science academies – the ‘natural’ counterparts to the US NAE. Raja Ramanna, ex-Chairman of our Atomic Energy Commission was still at NIAS, where Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense had met him at a previous small gathering. The campus, the NAE team noted, reminded them of Stanford; and when it learnt NIAS was an independent institute, the team decided – on the spot – that NIAS was the right institution to partner with.
.
.