Would it help if India signs the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty?
India can’t sign. (But) it would help if India provided a pledge not to be the first to resume testing nuclear weapons. They have not given this pledge. It would help if India signs the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as the United States has done. (The US Senate never ratified it and with the advent of the Bush administration, this major foreign policy objective of the Clinton administration was put to pasture.) It would help if India stopped blocking the initiation of negotiations on a verifiable cut-off treaty. All those things would help. Why can’t India sign the NPT? The whole structure of it is such. The treaty is a creature of the time when it was negotiated and to change it to accommodate India’s interests is just not possible.
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