a) What was the plea of Nehru with regard to nuclear energy? (b) When did India conduct * its first nuclear test and why?

Question

Read the following passage and answer the following questions:

India wanted to generate atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Nehru was against nuclear weapons. So he pleaded with the superpowers for comprehensive nuclear disarmament. However, the nuclear arsenal kept rising. When **** China conducted nuclear tests in October 1964, the five nuclear powers, the USSR. USA, , France and China ( Taiwan represented china) impose the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 on the rest of the world. India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it. When India conducted its first nuclear test, it was termed as peaceful **. India argued that it was committed to the policy of using nuclear power only for peaceful purposes.

(a) What was the plea of Nehru with regard to nuclear energy?

(b) When did India conduct * its first nuclear test and why?

(c) Why India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it?

Answer 1

(a) plea of Nehru with regard to nuclear energy- wanted to generate atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Nehru was against nuclear weapons. So he pleaded with the superpowers for comprehensive nuclear disarmament

(b) first nuclear test undertaken by India in May 1974. Nehru had always put his ***** in science and technology for rapidly building a modern India

(c) India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it-India has opposed the international treaties aimed at non-proliferation since they were selectively applicable to the non-nuclear powers and legitimized the monopoly of the five nuclear weapons powers. Thus, India opposed the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995 and also refused to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).