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Nature 393, 197-198 (21 May 1998) | doi:10.1038/30296
India's nuclear tests meet with domestic praise and protests
K. S. Jayaraman
Exercising the nuclear option seems to be one of the few election promises that India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has so far fulfilled (see Nature 392, 320; 1998). While prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee claims they were carried out in the interest of national security, the tests last week on Buddha's birthday in the land of Mahatma Gandhi have blasted a large hole in India's image as a spiritual, non-violent country.
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