Defence Minister Rajnath Singh let out one of India’s best kept nuclear secrets with a post on X. He announced the first of its kind launch of a 2000-km range canisterised Agni-Prime on September 24. The missile was launched from a ‘ specially designed rail mobile launcher, has the capability to move on rail network, without any pre-conditions that allows users to have cross-country mobility and launch within a short reaction time with reduced visibility’.

The unusually detailed statement was no slip up.

Nuclear weapons are political weapons and not weapons of war fighting. They are used for signalling deterrence to adversaries. In this case, Singh was signalling the survivability and effectiveness of a small but robust Indian nuclear arsenal as part of a broader strategy of strategi

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