Editing Nuclear proliferation (section)

====India====
[[India]] has also been discussed in the context of "nuclear apartheid". India has consistently attempted to pass measures that would call for full international disarmament, however, they have not succeeded due to protests from those states that already have nuclear weapons. In light of this, India viewed nuclear weapons as a necessary right for all nations as long as certain states were still in possession of nuclear weapons. India stated that nuclear issues were directly related to national security.

Years before India's first underground nuclear test in 1998, the [[Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty]] was passed. Some have argued that coercive language was used in an attempt to persuade India to sign the treaty, which was pushed for heavily by neighboring China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.org/pic/js/js(foreignaffairs).html|title=Sorry for the inconvenience.|access-date=12 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212012909/http://www.indianembassy.org/pic/js/js%28foreignaffairs%29.html|archive-date=12 December 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> India viewed the treaty as a means for countries that already had nuclear weapons, primarily the five nations of the United Nations Security Council, to keep their weapons while ensuring that no other nations could develop them.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00963402.1996.11456665|title=Options|year=1996|last1=Moore|first1=Mike|journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|volume=52|issue=6|page=2|bibcode=1996BuAtS..52f...2M}}</ref>