{"id":2599,"date":"2003-01-05T23:36:13","date_gmt":"2003-01-05T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/05\/indias-nuclear-policy\/"},"modified":"2003-01-05T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2003-01-05T18:06:13","slug":"indias-nuclear-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/indias-nuclear-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Nuclear Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has  been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=16127\">announced<\/a>.<br \/>We have committed ourselves to No-first-use. I think it is a bad idea.  If you&#8217;ve ever been an elder brother\/sister, you will know why. If you develop a reputation for maturity and rational behaviour, you&#8217;ll be the one  expected to make concessions every time there is a crisis, because the other side is so childish and immature  that it is impossible to reason with it. <br \/>We shouldn&#8217;t rule out <i>any<\/i> kind of behaviour, because that increases our predictability and restricts the number of chips on the table when we are bargaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced.We have committed ourselves to No-first-use. I think it is a bad idea. If you&#8217;ve ever been an elder brother\/sister, you will know why. If you develop a reputation for maturity and rational behaviour, you&#8217;ll be the one expected to make concessions every time there is a crisis, because the other side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}