By NNN-APP,
New Delhi : Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India has enough nuclear weapons to defend itself and it did not intend to stockpile weapons by operationlising Indo-US nuke deal.
Speaking at a function in Kolkata on Sunday, he said India wants to generate more energy and create scope of nuclear research.
Defending his government’s policy on nuke deal, he said “we have enough arsenal in our possession and a strong force to defend our country. So we don’t need to sign the nuclear deal for stocking weapons. It has much larger implication. “
He said this deal would break the 34-year-old India’s nuclear isolation.
It would usher in the resumption of research and development which scientists and technologists had been denied of since the first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974.
“Nuclear energy is the energy of the next generation and we want our people to enjoy it,” he said.