Word: delhi
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...Vajpayee's public pro-nuke pronouncements but accepts at face value private assurances that his government will not heat up the arms race, at least not before it has completed a lengthy comprehensive review of defense strategy. Pakistan is worried, though, by the aggressively nationalistic tone in New Delhi. On April 6, Islamabad test-fires its first intermediate-range missile, the Ghauri, named for a 12th century Muslim conqueror who defeated the last Hindu King of Delhi, Prithviraj Chauhan. Prithvi also happens to be the name of one of India's ballistic missiles capable of toting heavy payloads. With...
...Ambassador Bill Richardson arrives in India to lay the groundwork for President Clinton's visit later this year, he delivers the usual boilerplate warnings that India should exercise "restraint" in its nuclear program and take "no provocative actions." India's Defense Minister George Fernandes assures Richardson that New Delhi will do nothing rash, since it is still engaged in that policy review. "We were sucked in," says a U.S. diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...
...Indian Foreign Secretary Krishnan Raghunath meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Washington. Raghunath has not been told of the testing plans but is instructed to tell Talbott that New Delhi is still busily conducting its long security review. In hindsight, says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, "they were not forthright." At the CIA operations center, no order is sent out to spend the millions of dollars and precious fuel that would be required to move the four satellites out of their regular--now compromised--orbits...
...DELHI: In case you missed them, those five loud bangs earlier this week mean India has the bomb. And just to drive the point home, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in an interview Friday that he has more than mere nuke tests up his sleeve. "We have a big bomb now," he said, "for which a necessary command and control system is also in place." Although Vajpayee didn't elaborate, that could mean India's missiles have been tipped with atomic warheads -- or the country's small submarine fleet has just gone nuclear...
...this point, they've just decided to throw caution to the wind," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Tim McGirk of India's attempt to elbow its way into the nuclear club. "They're saying, 'Enough of this shilly-shallying around -- we've done the test, and we're going to build up our arsenal...