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dated August 31, 1957: Krishna Menon explains

The Defence Minister, Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon, intervening in the debate on the Appropriations Bill in the Rajya Sabha on August 29 declared that the Government of India had no intention of arming its defence forces with atomic weapons and that, therefore, there was no need for any training for atomic warfare or even in the use of weapons with atomic warheads. Mr. Menon was replying to the suggestion from some members that as some neighbouring countries, meaning particularly Pakistan, were equipped with weapons with atomic warheads, India must not lag behind in the interest of national security. Mr. Menon categorically stated that it would not be true to say that at the present moment India’s neighbours were armed with atomic weapons.

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