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Pokhran-1 and Pokhran-2: The Success Stories of the Indian Intelligence Community
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Pokhran-1 and Pokhran-2: The Success Stories of the Indian Intelligence Community

India's nuclear tests, its principled position on them and the diplomatic ship that sailed in those unnerving stormy seas cannot be without the excellent backup and work of the Indian intelligence agencies. It was due to R&AW that the first test and its responses made by the Indian government led to a turbulent but successful decade till the next test in the 90s. The second nuclear test under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee stunned the world as India followed and continued to rely on the intelligence inputs of the intelligence community in India. India has become the excuse for every crisis it seems. Any type of conflict today and the world cannot come to a parley without India's involvement. India is present in two important groups which shows its extensive engagement with both Russia...