ABSTRACT

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

chapter |31 pages

Chronology

chapter |230 pages

Keywords and Concepts

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123 Agreement

entry |1 pages

A-5 Fighter-Bomber

entry |1 pages

A-7 Fighter-Bomber

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Aatre, Vasudev Kalkunte

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Abm Treaty

entry |2 pages

Additional Protocol

entry |2 pages

Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility

entry |1 pages

Advanced Heavy Water Reactor

entry |2 pages

Advani, Lal Krishna

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Aerospace Institute

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Agni

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Agni-1

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Agni-2

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Agni-3

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Agni-4

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Agni-5

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Agni-6

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Anti-Nuclear Movement

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Apsara

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Arihant-Class Submarines

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Armament Research And Development Establishment

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Arrow Missile

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Arunachalam, Vallampadugai Srinivasaraghavan

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Asthana, Teja Mohan

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Atomic Energy Act, 1962

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Atomic Energy Authority

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Atomic Energy Commission

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Atomic Energy Minerals Centre

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Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

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Atomic Minerals Directorate For Exploration And Research

entry |2 pages

Atoms For Peace

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Baghalchur Uranium Mines

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Bangladesh

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Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission

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Bank of Credit and Commerce International

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Baroda Heavy Water Plant

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Beach Sand Exploitation Centre

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Beg, Mirza Mohammad Aslam

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Beryllium

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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

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Bharat Dynamics Limited

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Bharatiya Jana Sangh

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Bharatiya Janata Party

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Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited

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Bhutto, Benazir

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Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali

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Boiling Water Reactor

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Boosted Fission Weapons

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Boron Enrichment Plant

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Brown Amendment

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Brownback Amendments

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Bush, George H. W

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Bush, George W

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Cabinet Committee On Security. See National Security Council

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Canada

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Candu Reactor

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Carter, Jimmy

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Centre For Nuclear Medicine And Ultrasound

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Centrifuges

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Chagai

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Chakra

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Charlie-1 Class Nuclear Submarine. See Chakra

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Chashma Nuclear Power Plant

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Chidambaram, Rajagopala

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China

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Cirus

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Civil Nuclear Liability Act

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Clinton, Bill

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Cold Start

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Cold Test

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Cold War

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Command And Control Systems

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Commitment Trap

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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

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Conference On Disarmament

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Confidence Building Measures

entry |1 pages

Container Security Initiative

entry |1 pages

Counterforce

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Countervalue

entry |1 pages

Cryogenic Rocket Engine

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Css-2 Missile

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Css-3 Missile

entry |1 pages

Css-5 Missile

entry |2 pages

De-Alerting Initiative

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Decapitation Strike

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Defence Electronics Research Laboratory

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Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory

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Defence Research And Development Organisation

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Defence Science And Technology Organisation

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Delingha Missile Base

entry |1 pages

Department Of Atomic Energy

entry |1 pages

Dera Ghazi Khan Uf-6 Conversion Plant

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Dera Ghazi Khan

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Desai, Morarji

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Deterrence

entry |1 pages

Deterrence By Denial

entry |2 pages

Deterrence By Punishment

entry |1 pages

Df-3 Missile

entry |1 pages

Df-4 Missile

entry |1 pages

Df-21 Missile

entry |1 pages

Dhanapala, Jayantha

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Dhanush

entry |1 pages

Dhawan, Satish

entry |1 pages

Dhruva

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Dubey, Muchkund

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Einhorn, Robert J

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Electronic Corporation Of India Limited

entry |1 pages

Electronics And Radar Development Establishment

entry |1 pages

Enriched Uranium

entry |1 pages

Enterprise Mission

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Existential Deterrence

entry |2 pages

Extended Deterrence

entry |1 pages

F-16 Fighter-Bomber

entry |1 pages

Fast Breeder Reactor

entry |2 pages

Fast Breeder Test Reactor

entry |1 pages

Fatehjung Missile Factory

entry |1 pages

Fernandes, George

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First Strike

entry |1 pages

First Use

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Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty

entry |1 pages

Fissile Material

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Fission

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Flight Test Range

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France

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Fusion

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Gadwal Uranium Enrichment Plant

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Gandhi, Indira

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Gandhi, Mahatma

entry |2 pages

Gandhi, Rajiv

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Gates, Robert Michael

entry |1 pages

Ghauri

entry |1 pages

Ghose, Arundhati

entry |1 pages

Glenn Amendment (1977)

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Golra Sharif Uranium Enrichment Facility

entry |1 pages

Gowda, Deve

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Gujral, Inder Kumar

entry |1 pages

Hatf-1

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Hatf-2

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Hatf-3 Ghaznavi

entry |1 pages

Hatf-4

entry |2 pages

Hatf-5

entry |1 pages

Hatf-6

entry |1 pages

Hatf-7

entry |1 pages

Hatf-8

entry |1 pages

Heavy Water Board

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Heavy Water

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Hersh, Seymour M

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High Energy Materials Research Laboratory

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Hyde Act, 2006

entry |2 pages

Iaea Safeguards

entry |1 pages

Inderfurth, Karl F

entry |2 pages

Indian National Congress

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Indian Nuclear Doctrine

entry |2 pages

Indian Nuclear Power Program

entry |1 pages

Indian Nuclear Test (1974)

entry |1 pages

Indian Nuclear Tests (1998)

entry |2 pages

Indian Ocean As Zone Of Peace

entry |1 pages

Indian Rare Earths Limited

entry |1 pages

Indian Space Research Organisation

entry |2 pages

Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research

entry |2 pages

Institute Of Nuclear Medicine And Ultrasound

entry |1 pages

Institute Of Space Technology

entry |1 pages

Instrumentation Laboratories

entry |1 pages

Integrated Defence Staff

entry |2 pages

Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme

entry |1 pages

Interim Test Range

entry |2 pages

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

entry |2 pages

International Atomic Energy Agency

entry |2 pages

Iran

entry |1 pages

Israel

entry |1 pages

Issa Khel Uranium Mill

entry |1 pages

Iyengar, P. K

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Jaguar Fighter-Bomber

entry |2 pages

Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

entry |1 pages

Japan

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Jaswant–Talbott Dialogue

entry |1 pages

Jinnah Naval Base

entry |2 pages

Joint Intelligence Committee Report

entry |1 pages

K-4

entry |1 pages

K-15

entry |2 pages

Kahuta

entry |1 pages

Kahuta Attack Crisis (1984)

entry |1 pages

Kaiga Generating Station

entry |2 pages

Kakodkar, Anil

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Kakrapar Atomic Power Station

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Kalam, A. P. J

entry |1 pages

Kalpakkam

entry |1 pages

Kamini Reactor

entry |1 pages

Kant, Krishan

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Karachi Nuclear Power Plant

entry |2 pages

Kargil Conflict

entry |1 pages

Kashmir Crisis

entry |2 pages

Khan Research Laboratories

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Khan, A. Q

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Khan, Ghulam Ishaq

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Khan, Munir Ahmad

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Khan, Sahibzada Yaqub

entry |2 pages

Khushab

entry |1 pages

Kirana Hills Weapons Storage Facility

entry |2 pages

Kissinger, Henry

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Krishnaswamy, S

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Kudankulam Atomic Power Project

entry |1 pages

Kundian Nuclear Complex

entry |1 pages

Laser Science And Technology Centre

entry |2 pages

Launch-On-Warning

entry |1 pages

Launch-Under-Attack

entry |1 pages

Legality Of Nuclear Weapons

entry |2 pages

Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam (Ltte)

entry |1 pages

Libya

entry |2 pages

Limited Deterrence

entry |2 pages

Limited War

entry |1 pages

Line Of Control

entry |2 pages

Lop Nor

entry |1 pages

Madras Atomic Power Station

entry |1 pages

Malik, V. P

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Margalla Electronics

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Masani, M. R

entry |1 pages

Mashhood Test Firing Range

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Massive Retaliation

entry |1 pages

Mehra, Surinder Kumar

entry |2 pages

Menon, Krishna V. K

entry |2 pages

Mig-27 Fighter-Bomber

entry |1 pages

Mig-29

entry |2 pages

Minimum Deterrence

entry |1 pages

Mirage Iii/V

entry |1 pages

Mirage-2000 Fighter-Bomber

entry |1 pages

Multiple Independently-Targetable Re-Entry Vehicle

entry |2 pages

Mishra, Brajesh

entry |2 pages

Missile Technology Control Regime

entry |1 pages

Mixed Oxide Fuel

entry |2 pages

M-Series Missiles

entry |1 pages

Mubarakmand, Samar

entry |2 pages

Multan Decision

entry |1 pages

Multan Heavy Water Production Facility

entry |1 pages

Mushaf Air Base

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Musharraf, Pervez

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Mutually Assured Destruction

entry |1 pages

Myanmar

entry |2 pages

Nanda Devi Affair

entry |1 pages

Nanda Kot Nuclear Controversy

entry |1 pages

Narora Atomic Power Station

entry |2 pages

National Command Authority

entry |2 pages

National Defence Complex

entry |1 pages

National Democratic Alliance

entry |1 pages

National Development Complex

entry |1 pages

National Engineering And Scientific Commission

entry |2 pages

National Security Advisory Board

entry |1 pages

National Security Council

entry |2 pages

Nayar, Kuldip

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Nayyar, K. K

entry |2 pages

Negative Security Assurance

entry |2 pages

Nehru, Jawaharlal

entry |1 pages

Neutron Initiator

entry |1 pages

New Labs

entry |1 pages

Next Steps In Strategic Partnership

entry |2 pages

Nixon, Richard

entry |2 pages

No First Use

entry |1 pages

Non-Aligned Movement

entry |2 pages

Non-Attack On Nuclear Facilities Agreement

entry |2 pages

Non-Nuclear Weapon State

entry |1 pages

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

entry |2 pages

North Korea

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Apartheid

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Arms Control

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Club

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Command Authority

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Deterrence

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Disarmament

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Escalation

entry |1 pages

Nuclear-Free Zone

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Fuel Complex

entry |2 pages

Nuclear List

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act, 1978

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Limited

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Proliferation

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Strategy

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Suppliers Group

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Terrorism

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Threshold

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Weapon State

entry |1 pages

Nuclear Weapons Convention. See Nuclear Disarmament

entry |2 pages

Operation Brasstacks

entry |2 pages

Operation Parakram

entry |1 pages

P-5

entry |1 pages

Pac-3. See Patriot Missile

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Padmanabhan, Sundararajan

entry |2 pages

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex

entry |1 pages

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

entry |1 pages

Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor

entry |1 pages

Pakistan Institute Of Nuclear Science And Technology (Pinstech)

entry |1 pages

Pakistan Ordnance Factories

entry |1 pages

Pakistani Nuclear Doctrine

entry |2 pages

Pakistani Nuclear Tests (1998)

entry |1 pages

Pakistan People'S Party

entry |2 pages

Pant, K. C

entry |1 pages

Partial Test Ban Treaty

entry |1 pages

Patriot Missile

entry |1 pages

Peaceful Nuclear Explosion

entry |1 pages

Permissive Action Links

entry |2 pages

Phoenix Reprocessing Plant

entry |1 pages

Plutonium Reprocessing

entry |2 pages

Plutonium

entry |1 pages

Pokhran

entry |2 pages

Pokhran I

entry |2 pages

Pokhran Ii

entry |2 pages

Pre-Emptive Strike

entry |1 pages

Pressler Amendment

entry |1 pages

Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor

entry |1 pages

Prevention Of Arms Race In Outer Space

entry |1 pages

Preventive Strike

entry |2 pages

Prithvi

entry |2 pages

Project Devil

entry |1 pages

Project Valiant

entry |2 pages

Proliferation Security Initiative

entry |1 pages

Proportional Deterrence

entry |2 pages

Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

entry |2 pages

Purnima Research Reactor

entry |1 pages

Qabul Khel Uranium Mine

entry |1 pages

Ra'Ad Missile

entry |1 pages

Radiation Testing Laboratory

entry |1 pages

Radiological Weapon

entry |2 pages

Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology

entry |2 pages

Rajasthan Atomic Power Station

entry |2 pages

Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan

entry |2 pages

Ramanna, Raja

entry |2 pages

Rao, P. V. Narasimha

entry |1 pages

Raphel, Robin

entry |1 pages

Ras Koh

entry |1 pages

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

entry |2 pages

Rattehalli Enrichment Facility

entry |1 pages

Recessed Deterrence

entry |2 pages

Research And Development Establishment (Engineers)

entry |1 pages

Research Centre Imarat

entry |1 pages

Riedel, Bruce

entry |1 pages

Ring Magnets

entry |2 pages

Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant

entry |2 pages

Russia

entry |2 pages

Safeguards

entry |1 pages

Sagarika. See K-15

entry |1 pages

Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics

entry |1 pages

Saha, Meghnad

entry |2 pages

Salam, Abdus

entry |2 pages

Sanctions

entry |1 pages

Santhanam, K

entry |2 pages

Sarabhai, Vikram

entry |1 pages

Sargodha Air Base

entry |2 pages

Saudi Arabia

entry |1 pages

Savar Research Reactor

entry |2 pages

Second Strike

entry |2 pages

Separation Plan

entry |2 pages

Sethna, Homi

entry |1 pages

Shadoz

entry |1 pages

Shaheen-1 Missile

entry |1 pages

Shaheen-2 Missile

entry |1 pages

Shakti Tests

entry |1 pages

Sharif, Nawaz

entry |2 pages

Shastri, Lal Bahadur

entry |1 pages

Shaurya

entry |1 pages

Sihala Centrifuge Pilot Plant

entry |2 pages

Sikka, Satinder Kumar

entry |1 pages

Singh, Jasjit

entry |1 pages

Singh, Jaswant

entry |1 pages

Singh, Manmohan

entry |1 pages

Slv Series Rockets

entry |1 pages

Soviet Union

entry |2 pages

Space And Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

entry |1 pages

Sri Lanka

entry |1 pages

Srinivasan, M. R

entry |2 pages

Stability–Instability Paradox

entry |1 pages

Strategic Forces Command

entry |1 pages

Strategic Plans Directorate

entry |2 pages

Su-30

entry |1 pages

Sub-Kiloton Test

entry |2 pages

Subrahmanyam, K

entry |2 pages

Subterranean Nuclear Explosion Project

entry |2 pages

Sundarji, K

entry |1 pages

Suparco Plant Karachi

entry |1 pages

Surya

entry |2 pages

Symington Amendment

entry |2 pages

Talbott, Strobe

entry |1 pages

Talcher Heavy Water Plant

entry |2 pages

Tarapur Atomic Power Station

entry |1 pages

Tarnawa Missile Complex

entry |2 pages

Task Force 74

entry |2 pages

Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research

entry |1 pages

Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory

entry |2 pages

Thal Heavy Water Plant

entry |1 pages

Thorium

entry |1 pages

Tipnis, A. Y

entry |1 pages

Tritium

entry |2 pages

Tu-22 Bombers

entry |1 pages

Tumman Leghari Uranium Mines

entry |3 pages

United States

entry |2 pages

Us–India Nuclear Deal

entry |2 pages

United Kingdom

entry |1 pages

United Progressive Alliance

entry |1 pages

Uranium

entry |2 pages

Uranium Corporation Of India Limited

entry |1 pages

Uranium Enrichment

entry |1 pages

Uranium Enrichment Plant, Barc

entry |2 pages

Uranium Mines And Resources

entry |1 pages

Usmani, I. H

entry |1 pages

Uss Enterprise

entry |1 pages

Vajpayee, Atal Behari

entry |2 pages

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre

entry |1 pages

Vehicle Research And Development Establishment

entry |2 pages

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

entry |2 pages

Vver Reactors

entry |1 pages

Wah Complex

entry |2 pages

War-Fighting

entry |1 pages

Wassenaar Arrangement

entry |2 pages

Wazir Khan Khosa

entry |1 pages

Weapons Of Mass Destruction Act, 2005

entry |2 pages

Yellowcake

entry |1 pages

Zangger Committee

entry |1 pages

Zerlina. Zerlina

entry |2 pages

Zia-Ul-Haq, Muhammad