I would like to emphasize that security can be endangered not only from outside but also from within. If you do not maintain the rate of progress of the economic development of the nation. I would suggest that you would have the most serious crisis, something that would disintegrate India as we know it.

At a time when there was crisis of considerable economic and political turmoil and when he was offered the chair of the Atomic Energy Commission. - The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Post-colonial State