In a no-holds barred match, the Opposition gave it all it had. Apart from Natwar Singh, former Union minister P. Chidambaram presented a coherent case: the arms race, mounting of missile heads, more nuclear warheads in the region and, then again, the real motives for the blasts. Chidambaram in fact recreated a mini-Star Wars situation for the subcontinent—only to be denied hotly by Fernandes who urged Chidambaram to "look at the annual reports of the Ministry of Defence for the last few years" before raising ridiculous queries. And he pointed out later, a nuclear weapon had been used just once by a country that was the sole possessor of an atomic device. Since then, as more nations acquired the technology, it has not been used and has only been used as a deterrent. Not to be outdone, the CPI's Indrajit Gupta talked of the water and power crisis in the capital "while this government is busy making bombs". Fernandes' retort: "Water and power have been a problem for the last 50 years. Could all of it be linked to the nuclear explosions?"