It's mad to jump straight to MAD

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) election manifesto has triggered a long-overdue discussion of India's decade-old nuclear weapons doctrine. Some analysts interpreted the BJP's undertaking that it would "revise and update" the doctrine as an intention to revisit India's "no first use" (NFU) commitment. Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, quickly denied any such intention.

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