{{India has said that it acquired nuclear weapons to prevent other strong nations from blackmail and coercion.}} <\/p>\n
National security advisor Shivshankar Menon disclosed that after India became a declared nuclear weapons state in 1998, it has not faced such threats.<\/p>\n
Menon made the remarks during a national outreach conference on global nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n
He underlined that until the world arrived at “this happy state” it will continue to maintain atomic weapons as they have helped deter others from attempting nuclear coercion or blackmail.<\/p>\n
On at least three occasions before 1998, other powers used the explicit or implicit threat of nuclear weapons to try and change India’s behaviour,” he revealed.<\/p>\n
“So the possession of nuclear weapons has, empirically speaking, deterred others from attempting nuclear blackmail against India,” he added.<\/p>\n
The day-long conference, organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs and supported by the external affairs ministry, saw the participation of nearly 1500 students from around 37 universities.<\/p>\n
Menon said,”Unlike certain other nuclear weapon states, India’s weapons were not meant to redress a military imbalance, or to compensate for some perceived inferiority in conventional military terms, or to serve some tactical or operational military need on the battlefield,” he added.<\/p>\n
Menon underlined that said the acquisition of nuclear weapons has imparted an added authority to India’s moral authority for universal disarmament on the global fora.<\/p>\n
“We spent 24 years after our first peaceful nuclear explosion in 1974 urging and working for universal nuclear disarmament and a nuclear free world,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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