India declared in January that it would mass-produce and deploy the 250-kilometer range Prithvi missile, despite U.S. pressure on India not to do so. The announcement was accompanied by news…
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India and Pakistan: New Missiles Increase the Risk of Nuclear War
In May, Pakistan’s President Farooq Leghari blamed India for starting a new arms race in South Asia that would “endanger peace in the region.” He warned that Islamabad would not…
India’s Chemical Exports Worry U.S. Officials
Indian companies are still a chemical proliferation threat, U.S. officials say, despite the Indian government’s effort to rein them in. The threat was demonstrated graphically in April, when a U.S….
India Moves from Smuggling to Exporting Heavy Water
India’s nuclear program requires a steady stream of heavy water, which looks and tastes like ordinary water but is used to run reactors that make plutonium. In the past, India…
India’s A-Bomb Potential
The plutonium produced in the Cirus and Dhruva reactors is ideal for making atomic bombs. The power reactors at Madras, Narora and Kakrapar generate plutonium that is also suitable for…
India: Nuclear Helpers
Western companies have supplied India’s controversial nuclear program for more than three decades. All of India’s plutonium-making reactors and heavy water production plants are based on foreign designs. Canada Supplied…
India’s Nuclear Shopping List
India still looks to foreign suppliers for equipment to advance its nuclear program. Though it has strong capabilities in most areas of the nuclear cycle, India needs help with fissile…
India’s Big Emerging Market Poses Nuclear Risk
On a January visit to promote U.S. trade, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown spoke at one of India’s leading rocket and missile development sites. The Indian Institute of Science is developing…
India’s Missiles and Rockets
These are India’s six biggest missiles and space rockets. If a U.S. firm “knows or is informed” that its products will contribute to their development, the firm must obtain a…
Indian Missiles: Threat and Capability
As Indian scientists watched their new space rocket ascend over the Indian Ocean, they were jubilant. The rocket’s four giant stages lifted a three-quarter ton satellite into a near polar…