"We have enough arsenal in our possession and a strong force to defend our country. So we don't need to sign the nuclear deal for stocking weapons. It has much larger implication," Mukherjee said at a function organised by the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan.
The deal would break the 34-year-old nuclear isolation ushering in the resumption of research and development which scientists and technologists had been denied of since the first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974.
"Nuclear energy is the energy of the next generation and we want our people to enjoy it," Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee was speaking on the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebration of the Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan which was established in 1938.
