US Initiated Nuclear Proliferation to India

[RiazHaq]

India is a major prolifertor, according to India watcher Stephen Cohen of Brookings.

"We define nonproliferation in different ways -- the Indians point to their great record of not transferring nuclear technologies and also, of course, point to Pakistan and China.

For many Americans, the fact that India went nuclear is a nonproliferation disaster. I don't share that passion, but clearly it did some damage to the nonproliferation regime. Whether it is justified or not is another question, but India cannot simply say they are great on nonproliferation because in fact they were a major proliferator."

'India was a major proliferator'

Here's more from Wisconsin Project on India's proliferation record:

India's Proliferation Record: Nuclear and Missile Diversion

The fact is that there would be no nuclear weapons program in Pakistan if India had not diverted from US and Canada supplied plants and materials to build and explode its first A-bomb in 1974.

 

[majesticpankaj]

Here's the link to a 1992 article titled "India's Silent Bomb" by David Albright published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which clearly says that the plutonium for India's first bomb in 1974 came from Canada's CIRUS reactor:

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Google Books

Then there's another quote from Paul Leventhal, Nuclear Control Institute, about US's secret help that led to India's 1974 nuclear test, with the US being a proliferator:

"We also learned that the reprocessing plant where India had extracted the plutonium from Cirus spent fuel, described as "indigenous" in official U.S. and Indian documents, in fact had been supplied by an elaborate and secret consortium of U.S. and European companies.

Faced with this blatant example of the Executive Branch taking Congress for the fool, the Senate committee drafted and Congress eventually enacted the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. And the rest, as they say, is history."

CIRUS Reactor's Role in a US-India Nuclear

there are numerous article and blogs regarding pakistan's proliferation