The Opinionator on... The Indian Bomb

India's recent nuclear defense initiatives may alarm Pakistan and China, piss off Japan and the United States, and give ideas to Iran. They also seem oddly gangstery for a country whose middle class is the largest in the world. Exactly what part of arms racing hasn't long been discredited, anyway? Believing yourself protected if your guns are large and numerous enough? Wasting millions of dollars on satanic hardware, that could better be spent on agriculture and education? Orgying in a false sense of national pride and respect as a world power? Scaring your neighbors, which since the Cold War have included every other country in the world?