PARIS: India does not have a nuclear bomb although it has all the resources could one, the Prime Minister, PV, Narasimha Rao, says in an interview to be published in Panne the, Pakistanis have the atomic bomb, but we don’t have it,” he told the conservative daily Le Figaro, “Certainly we have the resources to build it immediately, but we have paver, until now, wanted to take that step,” he added small group of counting Pakistan and Israel They have not signed’ the nuclear Nonproliferation treaty (NPT). Mr. Rao justified his stance because Of what he called the threat posed b) neighboring Pakistan, “We are very concerned about Pakistan’s nuclear Program. We have tried to attract the Attention of the World about this danger everyone wants us to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. We Consider that it is not Possible in the current Context to give up our nuclear deterrent,” he said.

 

 

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