The current Indian PM is the greatest PM India has ever had, and is likely to be the greatest PM India ever will have. He doesn't have an ounce of corruption within in him, and he's gone after corruption at the state level very aggressively (where its worst). Also, his mind isn't filled with all this idiotic "Appease the Middle East, China, and the West" notions that many of the prior Indian PM's suffered from. During his time in office, there's been more economic growth in India than in the last 20 years.
is more interested in building up her Nuclear Arsenal than helping her Citizens climb out of the devastating poverty that Millions are suffering in.
WTF do you expect the gov't to do? Have you even been to India before (doubt it, since it seems unlikely you've ever left whatever hick town you live in). The gov't could give all taxes collected to the poor, and that still wouldn't solve sh|t. Most people who are poor in India right now, are poor due to their own ignorance. And India is a capitalist society too (they have officially abandoned their socialist leanings), so it would be inconsistent with economic policy to invest in a large infrastructure to help the poor. Even here in the U.S., how many poor kids living in the ghetto get ahead because of goofy welfare programs and such? People get ahead by being motivated and working hard, and that holds true for the poor in India as well
And it's easy for the U.S. to say that India doesn't need nuclear arms. The U.S. is located between Mexico and Canada, neither of which happen to be aggressive. India has a whole horde of fundamentalist Muslim nations to the North and West of it, and China to the East (BTW, China has actually claimed the entire Northeastern chunk of India, and actually invaded a small portion of it). It's such an idiotic thing to say that "a country should help its poor before doing anything else". I'm sure the poor in India are very glad that India has invested in heavily in its national defense program, because without it, lots of those poor would be working in Communists labor camps in China, or would be praying 10 times a day to Allah, because some Muslim forced them to convert.
The worst thing India could do now is sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. EVEN THE U.S. DIDN'T SIGN IT