BJP's Bomb

[Rakesh Bhandari]

After decades of imports from the Soviet Union, India has developed an
indigeneous arms capacity; Pakistan probably imports from China. I think I
was wrong to suggest that US arms exporters are a major presence but after
the Gulf War there has been an obvious improvement in US military
relations with India. It seems to me that either India will try now to do
what Reagan did to the Soviet Union (annihalte Pakistan through an
escalation in the arms race; the percentage of GDP devoted by Pakistan to
defense must already be one of the highest in the world--30%?) or India is
using these tests to win certain concessions before signing the Test Ban
Treaty. Needless to say, the BJP seems to have consolidated its rule.
Best,
Rakesh