Did it really????

Did it really????I was reading times of india and on the main page there is a headline commemorating the 'Pokhran' nuclear blast that India conducted on the 11th and 13th of May 1998. I was of the opinion that what purpose these test serve? For a country which is still under developed, with its rampant poverty what good these nuclear tests do to the common man...I guess Nothing!! The paper talks about the new found resilience that India showed in fighting the developed nations or the bullies and not letting them push India into obscurity and condemnation.I feel that the way things are these days and the way Indian economy is opening no country would have liked to corner India and loose a lucrative market. For me it was an egotistical work on BJP led governments part. They just wanted to have an extra slogan or a catch phrase for there election campaign.My question is what good you achieved by conducting the test nothing, zilch, nada. These test didn't catapult India into some fairyland where every one was in awe of India. Nothing as such happened. We are still the same old country with poverty, where people live on daily wages, literacy level is low. What India needs is not an explosion of atomic bomb but an explosion of goodwill, prosperity and well being......keeping fingers crossed.