Indore: Dismissing a top nuclear
scientist's contention that Pokharan II was not a complete
success, Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar today
said the tests in 1998 achieved "100 per cent desired
results".
Speaking at a function organised by the Raja Ramanna
Centre for Advanced Technology here, Kakodkar said, "Pokhran
II tests were a complete success and they achieve 100 per cent
desired results."
On Wednesday, Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) representative for Pokhran II K Santhanam
had said that India should not sign the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT) as the country needed to carry out more tests
since the thermonuclear tests in 1998 had failed to produce
the desired results.
Pokhran-II was a success: Kalam
Former President A P J Abdul
Kalam today asserted that Pokhran-II nuclear tests conducted
in 1998 during the NDA regime were "successful", dismissing
the claims by a former defence scientist to the contrary.
"Scientists know what it is. It has been a successful
operation," Kalam, who as Director General of the Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spearheaded the
tests, told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Kalam initially refused to respond to questions by
reporters on the claim made by former defence scientist K
Santhanam that the yield in the thermonuclear device test was
much lower than what was declared, but later said the test was
a "successful operation".
Rejecting Santhanam's claims, Kalam had yesterday said
the data collated by the team has established that the design
yield of the thermonuclear test has been obtained.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, August 28, 2009, 23:37