AjayGhatak
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Huh? Israel samson option is way different. They neither confirm but more importantly NEVER DENY the existence of their nukes.Not necessarily - you take the Israel stance of deniability but everyone knows you have it and you convey their existence only via secret diplomatic cables in euphemisms.
However, for this specific scenario I don’t see BD having a need for a “samson” option in terms of a WMD because it’s primary threat has a much stronger preference for using political assets to assert control rather than any military adventures because those will backfire in many ways.
However, Im more averse to biological WMDs simply because I remember the past 5 years and will remind everyone that while you can control where a nuclear or chemical weapon detonates and its fallout - you can launch a virus or similar biological component but you have NO WAY to control its yield and fallout.
So your deterrence is no longer against once state you’re essentially saying to the entire world “touch us and we’ll commit hara kiri for the entire human race”.
Fine if you want to be the DPRK - not fine if you want to be a progressive economic power.
Will BD be able to do the same? Not denying existence of biological WMDs? Let me remind you that BD is signatory to treaty on Biological and Chemical weapons.
If it keeps its biological WMDs secret what deterrence value will it have? If it gets leaked to India then India can do an intelligence coup to expose those weapons to the world inviting economic repurcursions in peace time and a legitimate excuse to deploy its own WMDs (nukes) during wartime.