November 23, 2009

India and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Last updated: October 21, 2008

Author

Dinshaw Mistry
Associate Professor, Political Science & Director, Asian Studies

Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ACDIS Research Report series
September 1998

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Summary

This monograph examines India’s position toward the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and exploresrnthe sources of India’s initial enthusiasm and subsequent opposition to the treaty in the period 1994–96. Itrnconcludes with a discussion of India’s nuclear tests of May 1998 and New Delhi’s expressions of support forrnthe CTBT thereafter.