Category Archives: 11th May 1998

India’s BJP moves quickly to deliver nuclear punch

11 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited   NEW DELHI, May 11 (Reuters) – India’s three underground nuclear tests on Monday were heralded by plentiful portents and a steady rise in the political temperature on the subcontinent. One day before he took power in March, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee served notice…

Defiant India takes on world with nuclear tests

11 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited   NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuters) – India prepared on Tuesday to face the world’s shock and dismay over its three underground nuclear tests, and its faltering government appeared to have won sweeping domestic backing for its bold and defiant step. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya…