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Indian Navy Nuclear capability
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: January 16, 2002 09:09PM

<HTML>CNN posted this quote:

[www.cnn.com]

"We're ready, ships are armed, fueled and provisioned," Admiral Madhavendr Singh, head of the world's seventh largest navy, told a news conference on Wednesday. Singh refused to say whether Indian warships were carrying nuclear weapons, but said India has renounced first use of such arms. "A country that espouses a nuclear doctrine of no first use must have second-strike capability, and an assured second-strike capability, and that's why countries have a triad," he said. "The most powerful leg of such a triad would be in the navy, hidden and moving under water, that's the conceptual part of it."

That would seem to imply that the Indian Navy has weaponized nukes on board their subs.

I doubt this, but does anyone have any thoughts?

(The same CNN article said that the Indian Navy has a fleet of 25 "Main battleships" (Adm Jellicoe watch out!), so consider the source.)</HTML>

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Indian Navy Nuclear capability kurt 01/16/2002 09:09PM
Re: Indian Navy Nuclear capability John Griffiths 01/19/2002 06:22PM
This reply Slightly Off topic Kris 01/21/2002 02:15PM


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