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Nature 401, 113-114 (9 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/43555

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Gatecrashing the nuclear club

Brahma Chellaney1

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India's 1998 nuclear-weapons tests heralded a second nuclear age.

India's nuclear ambitions have helped to mould international non-proliferation arrangements and have spawned many books. The 1974 atomic detonation in India, which its politicians described as a "peaceful nuclear explosion", triggered a series of major international developments.