Mr. President, Our Country is One Where a Major Part of the Population is Living Under the Poverty Line, Keeping This in View, How Wise It is for Our Country to Concentrate on the Development of the Nuclear Missiles When It May Just Increase Poverty and H

Q.
Mr. President, Our Country is One Where a Major Part of the Population is Living Under the Poverty Line, Keeping This in View, How Wise It is for Our Country to Concentrate on the Development of the Nuclear Missiles When It May Just Increase Poverty and Hence Hinder the Development?

Name: Ms. Kritika Venugopal IInd Semester, BA-LL.B

Age: Not Available

Institution: National Law University

City: Jodhpur

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We need to have a safe border for carrying out our development tasks peacefully. Hence, we have to attain and maintain minimum military strength. Since, strength alone respects strengths. We are spending only less than three percent of our GDP towards Defence expenditure. Other countries spend much more. National Security and Economic Security must go in hand in hand. One cannot be separated from the other. When all the countries around us have weapons we cannot be silently watching. We have to prepare ourselves for any eventuality. However, our policy is ?no first use?.

By A.P.J.Abdul Kalam