Indian Nationalism, Hindutva and the Bomb https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article10225 Sukla Sen: 2003.
the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter-bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence. Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love.- M K Gandhi
11th May 1998 was the day the Government of India,... , carried out, as per its official declaration, three nuclear explosions .... Just after a fortnight the neighbouring Pakistan, ... retaliated with a series of six explosions...
The reactions... a rather complex and problematic relationship between Indian nationalism - or its changing profile, and the politics of Hindutva - which, not too long ago, appeared to belong only to the lunatic fringe.