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Did India really try to take out Pakistan’s nascent nuclear weapons programme in the 1970s? No. India’s top nuclear brains believed an economically poor Pakistan didn’t have industrial base or capability to work with gas centrifuges - a thread on #MissionMajnu & the real story… 
India tested its first nuclear bomb in 1974, less than 3 years after Pakistan lost its eastern wing, which became Bangladesh. The feeling of helplessness was immense in Islamabad & Pakistan’s PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto felt the need to act…
Bhutto had already expressed Pakistan’s willingness to make a bomb in his famous interview to Manchester Guardian in 1965 - “If India makes an atom bomb, then even if we have to feed on grass and leaves — or even if we have to starve — we shall also produce an atom bomb”…
