India's First Nuclear Sub Undergoes Sea Trials
NEW DELHI, July 26 -- India on Sunday launched its first indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine for sea trials, making it the sixth nation in the world to possess such sea attack capabilities.
The dream of over a quarter of a century will be fulfilled today when Ms Gursharan Kaur, wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, breaks the coconut on the hull of India’s first indigenously constructed nuclear- propelled ballistic missile submarine — called a boomer in popular parlance — at a super- secret Naval base in Visakhapatnam.
