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Why is India not a Nuclear Superpower ? | Geopolitical Case Study
The year is 1947 and India had just gotten independence!! And while we were taking our first breath of freedom!! On the other side, the world had just witnessed the most horrific war in world history!!! And the event that shook the world was when the united states of america put an end to world war 2 by dropping 2 nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki!!!
The entire world was shocked to see how these nuclear bombs turned 2 entire cities to dust within a minute!! And the effects of Radiations astounded the most powerful nations in the world!!
That day every single leader in the world realized that if mankind comes to an end, nuclear weapons will be the reason!!! But you know what??While the entire world saw nuclear bombs as weapons of mass destruction, one man saw it as an opportunity!! This man wasn’t an American or a Russian, he was an Indian who went by the name Homi Jehangir Bhabha!!! Now like I said, This was the time when India had JUSTTT achieved independence, and we were such a poor country, that 80% of our population was living in poverty, we were struggling for food and the entire world looked down on us as a hopeless nation!!! And one of the biggest challenges we had was the energy problem!!! And we practically needed a miracle to recover from the destruction of british raj!!!
And this miracle is what Homi bhabha saw!! He knew that even though nuclear bombs were dangerous, the process behind nuclear bombs was the miracle that India desperately needed because he knew the power nuclear energy!!
So the question is,
What was Bhabha’s nuclear secret that could have changed India forever?
Why has India fallen behind today? What are the challenges that are paralyzing our growth in nuclear energy today?
And most importantly, where does India’s nuclear energy program stand today?