Why Did India Join The NSG?

In 1944, India started a nuclear program for the purpose of creating nuclear power. But in the 1954 they switched the direction of program into making nuclear weapons. The Indian government reach out to the United States’ government and Canada’s government to help get the supplies and components for a nuclear research reactor. The United States and Canada agreed to the Indian under the idea that they was going to use the reactor for peaceful purposes only. The project was moving steadily forward with the progress slowing down a bit with the change of the leadership and prime minister. After the Indian’s realized the Soviet Union was not a reliable ally and being tired out by the Sino-Indian War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, on September 7, 1972 the prime minster authorized the Bhabhha Atomic Research Centre.to build nuclear weapons and to prepare them for testing. The Bhabhha …show more content…
China has always been opposed to India joining the NSG for a few reasons. The first reason being that if a county joins the NSG without signing the Treaty and can have access to nuclear materials and make nuclear weapons is exactly what the NSG stands against. (Sajjanhar) The second being that India and it neighbors haven’t always seen eye to eye and is worried that India could protentially spark something with nuclear weapon which could lead to another war. The third reason is that India is growing at a steady rate and might not be as strong or have as much political strength as China has right now, but it will at some point. India is starting to start to match China’s economic influence and industrial strength in places in Africa and is starting to spread to other places in the world. China is trying to become the major super power in Asia that everyone looks to, like it was before the Opium War. So this is a little threating to China influence in Asia.