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August 2005
Center for Nonproliferation Studies. India and the New Look of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy.
The old football adage "You can't tell the players without a program" applies increasingly to the international politics of nonproliferation. Gone are the days when the United States routinely lined up on the side of those pursuing the goal of halting and reversing the spread of nuclear weapons. This change in Washington's nonproliferation game plan has been underway for some time, but was most clearly expressed in the July 18, 2005 India-U.S. Joint Statement. This extraordinary document, which reverses more than a quarter century of U.S. declaratory policy, suggests that the national security team of George W. Bush regards nuclear proliferation to be both inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing.
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