abstract:The Nuclear Command Authority (denoted as NCA) is the name given to the respective government agencies of the governments of Pakistan and India. They are responsible for deciding on the deployment of each country's nuclear weapons stockpiles and research and development.
He also claims all such proliferation activities ended in the 1990s, conveniently before General Musharraf set up a National CommandAuthority over the nuclear programme in 2002 and promised that all proliferation concerns had now been addressed.
Officials said that they saw little need to hurry what was a sensitive and complex process because there was a de facto commandauthority in place, with the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in charge of the nuclear trigger.