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But India had also promised Canada not to use its CANDU reactor for Nuclear weapons developments.
So, everyone and mostly Pakistan Know the value of your "Statements" of no first use...
Fair enough, CANDU/CIRUS reactor was purchased in 1963 by India to augment it's nuclear power generation capacity, it was before the 1967 nuclear tests done by China which seriously threatened the India's security, as far as i know, there was just an understanding between the govt. of Canada & India that the nuclear fuel will not be used in any military activity, there was no promise of sorts & this was before the Chinese test, After the tests conducted by China, Indian security was severely compromised as the two nations had already fought a war in 1962, acting in self defence, India had every right to develop nuclear weapons (as the Pakistani members here say about the development of it's nuclear weapons - "defence against India"), no international treaty or any written assurance was violated on part of India. Same is the case with INS Jalashwa LPD brought by India from US, India has said to US that it will not be used in war, but if Indian interests/security is severely threatened do u still think that India will not use a great resource in it's hand just because of a promise it made to another country, i mean it's better that India as a country remain than the promise (remain) it made to some other country.
But when u say that we can break our "no first use"
Statements, i want to correct u here that these are not just statements which the GOI has made in media, this is a policy decision which was mentioned in the doctrine of nuclear weapon use by the GOI as early as Aug. 1999 (one year after the pokhran test of 1998), so no future govt. can backtrack on it. Also if India ever tries to backtrack on this policy, it will be seriously condemned by all the nations of the world & UN sanctions will follow resulting in loss of credibility of India as a responsible nation and India will be paying with decrease in it's GDP, no more weapons from any foreign source, etc.
+ if India really wanted to keep her enemies in a state of ambiguity w.r.t her nuclear weapons use, what in the world was forcing her to make such a policy, no nuclear weapon state has a declared no first use policy, India could had simply followed them.