Re: India Reports a Long-Range Missile Test
- From: bmoore@xxxxxxx
- Date: 10 Jul 2006 16:08:35 -0700
Chen wrote:
Do we know that The West test long and short range missile every month?
Some time The West test almost every day. The West test to kill real
targets in Afganistan and Iraq. Many civilian were reported to be
killed by the West missile everyday.
Hi dum-dum! I recommend you go easy on your remaining brain cells, cuz
yer gettin' might low.
rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx wrote
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/world/asia/10india.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Where is the outrage against India's missile test?
By HARI KUMAR and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: July 10, 2006
NEW DELHI, July 9 - India test-fired its longest-range
nuclear-capable missile on Sunday for the first time, government
officials said. But although the missile was launched, it was unclear
whether the entire test was successful, with at least one report saying
that the missile had failed at some point in its flight.
The launching has occurred at a time of rising international tension
over North Korea's recent missile tests, and as the United States
Congress is considering a civilian nuclear pact that the Bush
administration negotiated with India.
While the pact does not concern missile tests or other military
activity, its critics say the Bush administration failed to obtain any
commitment from India to stop producing new nuclear weapons fuel, or to
restrict its production of new weapons. The test of the Agni 3 missile
(agni means fire in Hindi) appeared intended to show that India's
strategic arsenal could reach far beyond Pakistan and cover territory
including China.
The missile is reported to have a range of more than 1,800 miles. The
Defense Ministry said it had been launched from Wheeler Island, off the
coast of Orissa State in the Bay of Bengal, and had taken off
successfully.
But later, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted an unidentified
military official as saying that the missile had developed troubles,
perhaps in the firing of its second stage, and had not completed the
test successfully.
A Defense Ministry spokesman, Sitanshu Kar, would not comment on the
report other than to say, "The missile took off successfully, and the
rest of the data need to be analyzed, in a day or two, to come to a
conclusion."
India and neighboring Pakistan have often traded rounds of missile and
nuclear tests in times of tension between them. But relations between
the nations have improved lately, and the governments have a standing
agreement to inform each other before such tests. On Sunday, the
Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed that India had told it about the
test in advance.
While short-range missiles are enough to keep India and Pakistan in
mutual range, analysts have seen India's development of long-range
ballistic missiles, and the continuing development of its nuclear
weapons program, as a strategic step to keep China in check. The listed
range of the Agni 3, hundreds of miles longer than that of other
missiles India has tested, would put more of China's major cities
within striking distance.
In the past two years, tensions between India and China have lessened
somewhat, and direct border trade between them reopened last week along
the storied Silk Road through the Himalayas for the first time since
they fought a war 44 years ago.
The BBC reported that before the launching on Sunday, India had twice
postponed tests on the Agni 3, once for technical reasons and once
because of concern about the international response while it was trying
to seal its civilian nuclear deal with the Bush administration. In May,
the Indian defense minister, Pranab Mukherjee, was quoted as saying
that the missile was ready but that India was observing "self-imposed
restraint" before testing.
The nuclear deal between India and the United States is under review by
Congress and would, in effect, remove all United States restrictions on
nuclear trade with India that are in place because India has refused to
sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The only other countries to
refuse are Israel and Pakistan. North Korea withdrew from the treaty
three years ago.
Under the deal, the United States would give vital help to the Indian
civilian nuclear program, including uranium for fuel for civilian
reactors. The United States would not provide any fuel for Indian
weapons, but critics have pointed out that it would essentially free
the limited Indian uranium supplies for weapons production. The
agreement contains no restriction on how much or how fast India could
increase the size of its nuclear arsenal.
Hari Kumar reported from New Delhi for this article, and David E.
Sanger from Washington.
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