some clarification:
1.India does not have functional MIRV tech yet(read today's TOI P17 Tessy Thomas,Agni project director statement where she mentioned it as next target).
2.the so called missile defense shield even of USA after spending tens of billions of $ can only stop 1-2 missiles with a probability in the range of 90%. intercepting a missile with another missile is like trying to hit a bullet with another bullet midway in the air kinda like something you see in movies.it is very difficult & almost impossible if you consider a scenario of 4-5 or more missiles coming.missile defense shield is only to prevent 1-2 missiles from rouge states like north korea or some terrorist organization getting their hands on a missile.it is useless against a nation like USA or Russia having 1000s of missiles on an automated launch control.
3.no matter what weapon you have it is useless if you can't use it fast enough.India does not have any well defined central nuclear command which even Pakistan has.it will probably take us 15 minutes to half an hour just to assemble the warhead & delivery system like agni.of course pakistan can not annihilate our launching facilities in this time but china has the resources though it will mean an all out nuclear war so very unlikely but possibility is there.it also means that if someday a terrorist organization uses a nuclear device against India Pakistan will have ~30 minutes to talk to indian leadership to convince them it is not them(even if they are lying) not to mention US/world intervention(similar to aftermath of mumbai attack but much more pressure).
conclusion:more than nukes it is the conventional military strength & strong political leadership which will benefit us more instead of 10000Km 12MIRV(multiple independently-launchable re-entry vehicle) capable Agni.....
1.India does not have functional MIRV tech yet(read today's TOI P17 Tessy Thomas,Agni project director statement where she mentioned it as next target).
2.the so called missile defense shield even of USA after spending tens of billions of $ can only stop 1-2 missiles with a probability in the range of 90%. intercepting a missile with another missile is like trying to hit a bullet with another bullet midway in the air kinda like something you see in movies.it is very difficult & almost impossible if you consider a scenario of 4-5 or more missiles coming.missile defense shield is only to prevent 1-2 missiles from rouge states like north korea or some terrorist organization getting their hands on a missile.it is useless against a nation like USA or Russia having 1000s of missiles on an automated launch control.
3.no matter what weapon you have it is useless if you can't use it fast enough.India does not have any well defined central nuclear command which even Pakistan has.it will probably take us 15 minutes to half an hour just to assemble the warhead & delivery system like agni.of course pakistan can not annihilate our launching facilities in this time but china has the resources though it will mean an all out nuclear war so very unlikely but possibility is there.it also means that if someday a terrorist organization uses a nuclear device against India Pakistan will have ~30 minutes to talk to indian leadership to convince them it is not them(even if they are lying) not to mention US/world intervention(similar to aftermath of mumbai attack but much more pressure).
conclusion:more than nukes it is the conventional military strength & strong political leadership which will benefit us more instead of 10000Km 12MIRV(multiple independently-launchable re-entry vehicle) capable Agni.....