Perils of the BJP bomb: Jyoti Basu on Pokharan tests in 1998
West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu is one of the world’s most influential revolutionary and Left figures. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader is independent India’s longest-serving Chief Minister. In this article, he takes stock of the profound damage done by the BJP-led Government’s nuclear adventurism and jingoism while calling attention to the nuclear double standards of Western countries led by the United States. “Atomic India”, a special number of the quarterly journal, New Approach, which carries the article was recently released in Calcutta by President K.R. Narayanan.
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