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New Indian Nuclear Command Holds First Meeting The Indian Nuclear Command Authority held its first meeting yesterday to make decisions to “consolidate India’s nuclear deterrence,” a New Delhi statement said (see GSN, Jan. 6). Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee led the meeting of the authority, which was created in January as part of India’s efforts to formalize its nuclear command and control structure. During the meeting, a number of decisions were made to “further development and management of the [nuclear] program, the statement said (Agence France-Presse, Sept. 1). A number of topics related to India’s nuclear arsenal were discussed during yesterday’s meeting, including alternate chains of command for retaliatory nuclear attacks, the transfer of nuclear delivery systems to the Strategic Forces Command and the development of a nuclear triad, sources said (Rajat Pandit, Times of India, Sept. 2).
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