India’s New Secret Nuclear Facility Risks Military Build-Up in Asia
OLIVER MICHEALS
@RYOTnews
According to the report, some experts believe that the new facility and its work on creating thermonuclear weapons is a direct response to China’s assertiveness on the continent.
The new nuclear facility is said to be near the city of Mysore and parts of it may open in 2016. The construction of the site was what tipped off locals and finally journalists. Locals complained that their grazing and pastoral land was being snatched up mysteriously by the government with no answers.
An environmental group finally filed a lawsuit in 2012 and the government revealed that the land was going to the Indian military.
Little by little the real plans began to leak out.
India maintains a strict no first-use policy with its nuclear weapons. It claims that it only wants them as a deterrence.
India is not a signatory to either the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) but a rapprochement between the U.S. and India in 2007 over nuclear issues has at least seen its civilian nuclear reactors come under inspection by the IAEA.
