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by Amit Mitra
14 May 2002 03:04
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pak nukes activation during Kargil crisis - Discussion
Replies: 29
Views: 15669

Re: Pak nukes activation during Kargil crisis - Discussion

What do you think brother? Perhaps Panchsheel is the reason we are surrounded by hostile neighbors. Instead, had we done what we should have as the largest nation in this part of the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan might not have been hotbeds of terrorism, Iraq may have reflected on our military mig...
by Amit Mitra
14 May 2002 02:39
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pak nukes activation during Kargil crisis - Discussion
Replies: 29
Views: 15669

Re: Pak nukes activation during Kargil crisis - Discussion

This is exactly why we should have taken Pakistan and its nukes out when they were getting them (alternatively warned China that an a nuclear attack by Pakistan would be considered a nuke attack by China, and would invite nukes on both). If capability was in question it should have been built on an ...
by Amit Mitra
10 Dec 1999 22:33
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Chagai tests and the PU sample
Replies: 20
Views: 11802

Re: Chagai tests and the PU sample

For some reason a part of my post is getting deleted. I hope I can get the truncated piece to appear here. It is the extracts from Ramana's original that I responded to:<P>________________<BR>The picture got complicated in January 1999, when details of a missing PU sample obtained, by US planes, fro...
by Amit Mitra
10 Dec 1999 22:27
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Chagai tests and the PU sample
Replies: 20
Views: 11802

Re: Chagai tests and the PU sample

<<The picture got complicated in January 1999, when details of a missing PU sample obtained, by US planes, from the region were leaked. The sample was..subsequently lost ..The source of PU detected at Chagai can only be from outside Pakistan. China, which has provided significant help to the Pakista...
by Amit Mitra
10 Dec 1999 11:12
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Chagai tests and the PU sample
Replies: 20
Views: 11802

Re: Chagai tests and the PU sample

How might China, US and Pakistan respond if we conduct covert proliferation to Taiwan, as China has done to Pakistan?<P>Can anyone hazard any scenarios or likely events?
by Amit Mitra
10 Dec 1999 01:53
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: IAF vs PAF: Some observations on attrition
Replies: 24
Views: 15096

Re: IAF vs PAF: Some observations on attrition

It might be good for us to let Pakistan and China continue to underestimate us. When war comes, the truth, not perception will Triumph<P>- Satyameva Jayate
by Amit Mitra
09 Dec 1999 21:20
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Chagai tests and the PU sample
Replies: 20
Views: 11802

Re: Chagai tests and the PU sample

Thank you - an excellent and thought provoking post Ramana. The extent of Clinton's collusion with China against Indian interests, its impact on US and Indian postures and interests should be a topic for open debate in the US senate.<P>I wonder how much of this was in deference to Chinese contributi...
by Amit Mitra
13 Sep 1999 20:55
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: IAF strategy and capability assessment by SIPRI
Replies: 6
Views: 6429

IAF strategy and capability assessment by SIPRI

Eric Arnett is leader of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Project on Military Technology and editor of Nuclear Weapons and Arms control in South Asia after the Test Ban. Eric Arnett is also a leading India basher and his article, “Nuclear Stability and Arms Sales to India: Impl...