India's nuclear power a 'myth'
India's status as a nuclear power has been described as a "myth" by the scientist who carried out its controversial hydrogen bomb tests in 1998.
By Dean Nelson in New Delhi 6:00AM BST 19 Sep 2009
He said the device had only "fizzled". The claims by the test director K Santhanam have provoked an outcry in India which treasures its nuclear status as a symbol of its power in Asia where it has been locked in an arms race with both Pakistan and China.
[MMM]The Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh recently unveiled India's first nuclear submarine as a statement of its naval ambitions.
[MMM]But according to K. Santhanam, who directed the secret detonations of five Shakt' nuclear devices at their nuclear test site at Pokhran, in the Rajasthan desert, the true test results were covered up and falsely hailed as a success by the Hindu nationalist BJP government.
[MMM]At the time the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared: "India is now a nuclear weapons state. We have the capacity for a big bomb now."
[MMM]Although he stated India's bomb would never be a weapon of aggression, the tests were widely denounced and provoked retaliation from Pakistan which tested its own nuclear device 15 days later.
[MMM]But Mr Vajpayee's statement was not true, Mr Santhanam has claimed. The data sent to his office revealed the devices had yielded only around half the 45 kilotons it had claimed.
[MMM]"The decision to declare the hydrogen bomb a success was more of a political fatwa than a considered scientific-technical determination," he said. He has now called for an inquiry into the test results and warned that the creation of nuclear power could not be "based on myths."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -myth.html
Interestingly, searching on H bomb myth India Janes - 'Janes' being a 'defence' publication - had an April 2005 article with the same theme. Possibly earlier - why not? Pakistan 15 days later therefore of course sounds suspect.
An interesting aspect here is that the British Daily Telegraph has been owned since 2004 by David and Frederick Barclay, who are (everyone says) Catholics. It's possible this is outside the normal Jewish ownership and lies system, and therefore they feel free - or relatively free - to expose Jewish-related frauds. The Youtube video Nuke Lies was uploaded 4 Nov 2008.
