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No Dramatic Steps, Only Buying Time: Policy Lessons from India's Proliferation Drift of the 1960s

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What can scholars and policymakers learn from U.S. nonproliferation policy toward hard cases like India? Can the United States prevent proliferation when the state already has the indigenous capability to produce fissile materials and has high regional threat perception?

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. 28 March 1966.

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What can scholars and policymakers learn from U.S. nonproliferation policy toward hard cases like India? Can the United States prevent proliferation when the state already has the indigenous capability to produce fissile materials and has high regional threat perception? The presentation examines the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's policies towards India's nuclear weapons ambitions during a crucial period, when New Delhi accumulated plutonium from its reprocessing plant, experienced a conventional war with Pakistan, faced border disputes with nuclear-armed China, had major tensions with Washington, and actively negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

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