Even then, while one part of my mind was saying that what a great thing we had done, another part of my mind was saying that there is something not quite right about this. I was in a absolute state of dilemma. There was a churning that was going on in my mind and within myself. And that was one of the greatest turning points of my life. From the Buddha Purnima which was almost a month ago to today, an evil shadow has been cast on the subcontinent.
Conventional warfare is a totally different ball game.
Once you cross over the threshold of nuclear weapons, there are so many things that can fail, that can mislead you, that can take you into disaster. Today, when a missile is being detected by an air defence system, it is not going to advertise to you whether it is carrying flowers, conventional explosives, or thermo-nuclear devices at the tip of the missile. We have proudly proclaimed that we have set up a command, communications and control system. This is all humbug. Even in conventional systems, we had a plane coming in and dropping arms in Purnea and flying back, all undetected.