Call for more nuclear tests India should conduct further nuclear tests to establish itself as a true nuclear power, the former head of India's main nuclear body PK Iyengar has said. He supported Santhanam’s claims that the Pokhran II tests were half successes. "If India wants to declare itself as a nuclear power and confirm to the military that you have all the means of designing a thermo-nuclear device which can go into a missile, which can be dropped from an aircraft or can be launched from a submarine, you need many more tests," Mr Iyengar, the former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), declared. Mr Iyengar also said that India's 1998 nuclear test was not a deterrent against China, though it was against Pakistan. "The Chinese are aware of it and that should be a worry for India," he said.
Mr Iyengar's endorsement of Mr Santhanam came soon after the latter's claim was dismissed by the Indian government.
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