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INDIA PLANS TO CREATE THERMONUCLEAR WEAPON BY 2015: IHS JANES
15:47, 20 June, 2014
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. India is expanding a covert uranium
enrichment plant that could potentially support the development of
thermonuclear weapons. As informs "Armenpress", this was reported
by Reuters Agency on June 20, in reference to IHS Jane's defence
research group.
New units at the Indian Rare Metals Plant would boost India's ability
to produce weapons-grade uranium to twice the amount needed for its
planned nuclear-powered submarine fleet. This will raise the stakes
in India's arms race with China and Pakistan.
The facility, located near Mysore in southern India, could be
operational by mid-2015.
Unlike Iran, India is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. New Delhi tested its first nuclear weapon in 1974, provoking
international sanctions that barred it from importing nuclear
technology and materials. It conducted tests again in 1998 that drew
a quick response from Pakistan, triggering an arms race between the
neighbours, who have fought three wars since independence in 1947.A
civil nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, sealed in 2008,
gave India access to know-how and fuel in return for a pledge - so
far unfulfilled - to bring in U.S. firms to expand India's nuclear
power generation capacity.
The pact exempts military facilities and stockpiles of nuclear fuel
from scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency, a United
Nations watchdog. The Mysore plant is not subject to IAEA safeguards.
The IAEA declined to comment. The exemption, granted by the
administration of President George W. Bush, faced opposition from China
and Pakistan, India's regional rivals, and European nations who said
it would undermine efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/766629/india-plans-to-create-thermonuclear-weapon-by-2015-ihs-janes.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
15:47, 20 June, 2014
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. India is expanding a covert uranium
enrichment plant that could potentially support the development of
thermonuclear weapons. As informs "Armenpress", this was reported
by Reuters Agency on June 20, in reference to IHS Jane's defence
research group.
New units at the Indian Rare Metals Plant would boost India's ability
to produce weapons-grade uranium to twice the amount needed for its
planned nuclear-powered submarine fleet. This will raise the stakes
in India's arms race with China and Pakistan.
The facility, located near Mysore in southern India, could be
operational by mid-2015.
Unlike Iran, India is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. New Delhi tested its first nuclear weapon in 1974, provoking
international sanctions that barred it from importing nuclear
technology and materials. It conducted tests again in 1998 that drew
a quick response from Pakistan, triggering an arms race between the
neighbours, who have fought three wars since independence in 1947.A
civil nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, sealed in 2008,
gave India access to know-how and fuel in return for a pledge - so
far unfulfilled - to bring in U.S. firms to expand India's nuclear
power generation capacity.
The pact exempts military facilities and stockpiles of nuclear fuel
from scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency, a United
Nations watchdog. The Mysore plant is not subject to IAEA safeguards.
The IAEA declined to comment. The exemption, granted by the
administration of President George W. Bush, faced opposition from China
and Pakistan, India's regional rivals, and European nations who said
it would undermine efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/766629/india-plans-to-create-thermonuclear-weapon-by-2015-ihs-janes.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress