New Delhi, December 18: With the controversy over India’s nuclear deterrence refusing to die down, top scientists from atomic and other fields today urged the government to quickly set up a high-level and Independent panel of experts to chalk out an effective course of action in development of thermo -nuclear weapons.
The proposed broad-based mechanism is required for getting the country out of the impasse in which it is on the “crucial aspect of our Credible Nuclear Deterrent and hence on the core of our national, military and political security”, the scientists said.
The Group of 14 scientists said in a statement that by all accounts–geological, radiochemical as well as seismic–it is now quite clear that the fusion device(Hydorgen-bomb) during the Pokhran tests in May 1998 yielded a very low value of explosive power.
–Agencies