The Strategic Significance of Agni-V or Why China Should Be Worried

File photo of AGNI-V undergoing a canister based test




by Dr. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj



It is pertinent for readers to appreciate the quite dramatic shift that the eventual deployment of the Agni-V will mark in the evolution of the Indian nuclear arsenal. While the first two launches of the Agni-V – on 19 April 2012 and 15 September 2013 respectively – were of the standard Indian