India's Elections And Atom Bombs Share Umbilical Technological Connect
NDTV
India's elections today are the most secure and most advanced, since the same departments who helped made India's atom bombs make Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)
India's elections and atom bombs have an umbilical connect. The same facilities that make electronic voting machines (EVMs) also helped made the bombs in Pokhran.
India celebrates National Technology Day on May 11. On this day 26 years ago, the sands below the Thar desert shook, but did not leak radiation as India detonated three nuclear bombs in Pokhran on May 11, 1998.
Currently, India is in the throes of a general election with nearly a billion people eligible to cast their votes. It is not widely known that it is the same institutions that powered the nuclear explosions in 1974 and 1998, which today help empower the citizens of India, since all the EVMs are made in highly secure facilities of the same institutions that helped India become a nuclear weapons state.
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