What's the motive for making India a nuclear power? Is it because we want India to be self-sufficient or is it that we want to show our power to the world?

Q.
What's the motive for making India a nuclear power? Is it because we want India to be self-sufficient or is it that we want to show our power to the world?

Name: Manisha

Age: Not Available

Institution: La Martiniere Girls College

City: Lucknow

A.
India is a peace loving country. All our military actions are only for defence purposes. When many countries around us are surrounded in possession of nuclear weapons we cannot be keeping quiet. Even though we possess the capability our stated policy is "no first use".

By A.P.J.Abdul Kalam