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[edit] Completely Bogus and Retarded Claim

The claim that India is developing an ICBM to counter Europe, the United States and China and that it is a first strike weapon is highly controversial (not to mention, complete nonsense). This goes against India's 'no first strike' nuclear doctrine. Also, India is esentially a status quo state which does not view the EU and the US as military threats and is not in competition with them. Could you state the source of this statement.

[edit] India allied itself with USSR during the cold war?

How is it then that we helped found the Non-aligned movement? As far as I remember, Russia started helping us after the USA started helping Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan wars...

[edit] PSLV and GSLV

PSLV ( polar satillite Launch Vehicle ) and GSLV ( Geo synchronous satellite launch vehicle ) are not missiles but Space Vehicles that Carry the Indian IRS and INSAT class artificial satillites. Though there have been talks that these technologies could be used to build ICBMS , India surely doesnt aim towards using these well tested work horses of ISRO for defence purposes.

[edit] when did PSLV & GSLV became Missiles?

India is one of the only nations who can claim to develop Rockets first for Space research & development, Then for Military purpose. Then why are we considering PSLV & GSLV as missiles? when did they start having warheads & RVs? Why should we look PSLV & GSLV from a militaristic angle? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.162.215.107 (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Tagging the article for clean up

I am tagging the article for clean up. The articles is clearly a mess and contains too much irrelvant information. I volunteer to do the clean up myself and any help would be appreciated. apurv198016:10, 2 Janurary 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellaneous Entries at the Top

Is there any source available to the statement that India and Russia are the only two countries with a small-pox virus culture? The article on small-pox claims that Russia and USA are the two. Abathla 19:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

This article is severely outdated. Anyone mind if I update this.

--138.88.177.70 19:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

That would be most appreciated. ~Vivek 2006-08-10 0817hrs

Some problems with this page :

If only Prithvi, Agni and Danush are nuclear capable, why are the rest of the missile types (Akash,Nag,Trishul) also included ?.

nag is an antitank missile which is of 2 variants and Akash is a recon bot.
- Akash is not a UAV. It is a medium range SAM. ~Vivek 2006-08-10 0816hrs

- Narasimhan India 9:32

[edit] Hindu Scriptures/Bhagavad Gita?

Hey, shouldn't we include that Indian dude's claim that some Hindu scriptures talked about nuclear explosions and stuff? :) -- Миборовский ^{U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai!} 03:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

While there is talk about ancient wars in hindu scriptures using weapons that could be regarded as nuclear, it is as believable and as easy to prove that the Bible's "Let there be light" is an allusion to the big bang. I doubt it would fit in an encyclopedic article. Pdinc 09:22, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] homi bhaba?

hey, where's homi bhaba? founder of india's programme? Sohrab Irani 02:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General Signing Request

Perhaps it would be a good idea for all who contribute to this article, and also to the discussions associated to it to signed there comments?

There were a couple of "Miscellaneous Entries at the Top" of the discussions, and I thought that it would be a good idea to move them so as to ensure that discussions appear in a chronological format. This may or may not make discussions easier to follow, and I apologise in advance for any confusion or 'ruffled feathers' that I might cause. Perhaps, in future, other contributors might put their comments at the bottom of the discussions?

I have also taken *slight* liberties in terms of re-organising the page layout so as to make it easier for future contributors to navigate the discussions for this article. I was surprised by the fact that so many people seemed to ignore etiquette extended for this article - though it is quite possible that, for those who do not speak English as their first language, this is probably inevitable.

A final comment - many comments do stick to the 'official' or 'popular' dating and timing format. This is something that would save a significant amount of having to search under the 'history' records if, say, arguments were to arise as to the exact nature of comments made.

--Nukemason4 22:58, 26 Feb 2007 (UTC)

Good idea! I put the template up Vishnuchakra 22:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] India has Russian Supplied IRBMs?.

wow, great news, I didn't knew that Russians have developed new IRBMs and also supplied them to India. Seems like Pakistani trollers cannot stand their missiles tagged as Chinese copies.

Yea, really, wtf?! That's bogus. We don't have Russian and Israeli ballistic missiles, we really need to block some of these Pakis. 74.226.103.119 18:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Facts?

Just a quick question this page claims India has both 24000 and 70-120 warheads. I may be reading it wrong but i am inclined to belive the latter as 24000 is about the same as the USA.137.222.226.63 22:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] article not well written

very bad. this article is one of the most important in Indian Armed forces category and just not written well. Too much written about Surya which doesn't even exist. The Section which should be the most important i.e nuclear weapons receives little importance. Ballistic Missiles are nevethless delivery systems and they cannot regarded as weapons of mass destruction, should be given minimal importance in the article. Lot of editing can also be done in chemical weapons section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.243.161.52 (talk) 13:15, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link added

Hi. I just added a link I found recently covering the latest view on the United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act. They're video interviews taken by students during the Non-Nuclear-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom 2008 (ended yesterday - Fri-09 May). Jossejonathan (talk) 08:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect pic of Agni III launch

There have been only 3 single missile tests of Agni III so far and each of them with a gap of around 1 year. The missiles do not appear to be any variant of the Agni. The landscape in the picture appears foreign as well. Can the picture be verified from a credible source?Andy anno (talk) 17:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)