Doubts Over Pokhran-II Cleared
Clearing the air off every possible doubt regarding the failure of the Pokhran-II tests, India’s ambitious space project, Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and R. Chidambaram, AEC Chairman in 1998 and now Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union government, revealed that there is absolutely no need for “peer review. It’s an unnecessary controversy.”
Owing to the “proliferation sensitivity”,
the details of the tests were not made public. Refuting such demands as peer review made by their colleagues P.N. Iyengar (former AEC chief) and A.N. Prasad, former Bhabha Atomic Research Centre director, Chidambaram said that the issue is sensitive and it has grieved both him and Kakodkar. Meanwhile, former Defence Minister Jaswant Singh has asked the Centre to constitute a committee of selected experts to investigate over the matter as such controversies only affect the country’s credibility.
photo by Vivek Bendre
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