FROM THE EDITOR

摘要

Consequent to the five underground nuclear tests conducted by India on 11th and 13th May1998, on 13th May 1998, the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, sent a letter to the President of the United States of America, William Jefferson Clinton, explaining the deteriorating security situation India faced in the region and specified it as being a threat that India faced from China -"I have been deeply concerned at the deteriorating security environment, specially the nuclear environment, faced by India for some years past. We have an overt nuclear weapon state on our borders, a state which committed armed aggression against India in 1962. Although our relations with that country have improved in the last decade or so, an atmosphere of distrust persists mainly due to the unresolved border problem. To add to the distrust that country has materially helped another neighbour of ours to become a covert nuclear weapons state."