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Kalam: no treaty can stop nuclear tests

New Delhi: “India can conduct nuclear tests if the supreme national interest warrants it and no pact or treaty could come in the way,” the former President, A.P.J. Adbul Kalam, said on Sunday.

“When the supreme national interest is there, no pact, no treaty, nothing can come in between. If [an] international situation made the nation to do a test, it has to do a test,” Mr. Kalam told television channels when asked whether India can conduct nuclear tests after the operationalisation of the India-U.S. nuclear deal.

Asked about the government’s reiteration of the moratorium on further nuclear tests, Mr. Kalam said: “This means you have built certain type of nuclear weapons. With that confidence you say I will not do any more test.” — PTI

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