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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”…
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India-Israel Joint attack on Pakistan Nuclear Facility [Thread]
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India has outmatched Pakistan in every other department from the conventional military to the economy but this is one of the few where Indian couldn't beat Pakistan. -1/17 Image
The Jets in the #MissionMajnu trailer reminded me of this most significant but unpopular event of the 1980s. India conducted nuclear tests in 1974 which jeopardized security of the region because of imbalance of power. President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto authorized the project -2/17
establishing the foundations of Pakistan's most critical, crucial and consequential program. Meanwhile, In 1980 Israel adopted begin Doctrine under which it will not allow any enemy country to obtain nuclear weapons. It focused on carrying out preventive strikes against -3
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