Russia's nucleocracy refused to disclose relevant information, including the sailors' names, the sub's location, and the accident's circumstances. According to independent sources, there were two internal explosions, not a major collision, as claimed. Journalists had to bribe naval officers to get the victims' list. Their number was raised without explanation from 116 to 118. Such sordid behaviour is typical of all nuclear establishments.
Secrecy cuts across the democracy-dictatorship barrier.
For 40 years, the US refused to divulge facts about its terrifying radiation experiments on humans, including injections of poisons. The N-5 have always suppressed or denied unpleasant facts about their nuclear programmes. Transparency and nuclear activities just don't jell. Nuclear weapons and democratic accountability are mutually antagonistic. All this applies a fortiori to India.