The man who combined guile with generosity as India's first NSA

In March 1998, just before I K Gujral’s government finally caved into the world of realpolitik, I asked Brajesh Mishra, then head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s foreign affairs cell, what would be the top priorities of the BJP if it came to power. “We will go nuclear,” Mishra said simply. Listening to me echo some of the protestations so common in the Indian press at the time, which really amounted to US warnings of what it would do to India if it mustered the political courage to split the atom...

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