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India refused to accede to visiting US Undersecretary of State Richard Boucher’s request to define “credible minimum deterrence” and repeated in essence what his boss said during the Congressional briefings that it is self-explanatory and is relative. The question that was asked referred to India’s nuclear weapons program and its strategy to maintain “credible minimum deterrence” as means to maintain balance of power with Pakistan and more importantly China.
India had publicly said that it will not use its nuclear weapons first but promised that it has enough capacity to inflict crushing punishment on those who will use nuclear weapons against it. The vagueness of this strategy is what it would mean and whom would it target and what is the threshold it will maintain.
India also raised its concern for its personnel doing reconstruction work in Afghanistan. Specifically the Border Roads Organization (BRO) has been building roads and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police has been actively involved in their security. |
