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Explain the Nuclear Policy of India.

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Nuclear programme initiated in late 1940?s and early 1950?s, under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha. The main features of the Nuclear Policy of India are:

(i) India wanted to generate atomic energy for peaceful purpose.

(ii) India is against nuclear weapons. It pleaded with the superpowers for comprehensive nuclear disarmament.

(iii) When India conducted its first nuclear test, it was termed as a peaceful explosion.

(iv) India did not join the N.P.T, is considered the NPT as discriminatory and refused to sign it.