Bengaluru/Washington: In 2010, Deccan Chronicle’s Senior Editor B.R. Srikanth, lifted the lid off the ‘secret city’ in Challakere in Karnataka, which could “upgrade” the country as a nuclear power and unsettle its two major neighbours - Pakistan and China.
On Friday, a leading American foreign policy journal went ballistic with the story — that India is building a top-secret nuclear city to produce thermonuclear weapons; the facility, when it is completed in 2017, would be the subcontinent's “largest military-run complex of nuclear centrifuges, atomic-research laboratories, and weapons-and aircraft testing facilities”. Spread over 10,000 acres will be a large Military-Research complex that will include test ranges of the Army and DRDO, IISc and BARC’s enrichment facility.
“But another, more controversial ambition... is to give India an extra stockpile of enriched uranium fuel that could be used in new hydrogen bombs - thermonuclear weapons - substantially increasing the explosive force of those in its existing nuclear arsenal,” Foreign Policy magazine said.
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