Synopsis This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country’s approach to nuclear security. This concept, demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout. An attempt has been made to go into both the policy and programme aspects of India’s nuclear development and factors influencing them. It examines of the various national choices of nuclear policies involving consideration of diverse and often mutually conflicting objectives. It also analyses the growth and development of institutional infrastructure for the development of nuclear energy in India.