India moves closer to the nuclear triad?

January 31, 2013 00:56

Jaideep A Prabhu writes: The day after its Republic Day, India conducted the 12th test of its sea launched ballistic missile that has alternatively been called the K-15, Sagarika, and B-05 in its latest incarnation.The missile was tested for its full range of 700 kilometres, launched from a pontoon rigged to simulate a launch from India's nuclear submarine, the Arihant.

Despite the braggadocio of the media and the Defence Research and Development Organisation that India has completed its nuclear triad, such an occurrence is still at least a decade away.

The successful test-firing of the Sagarika by the DRDO is certainly a milestone, albeit overdue, but India remains a little way off the nuclear triad green. When India does genuinely deploy SLBMs, it would join a select group of countries with such capabilities -- the US, Russia, France, and China.

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