Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement: An Examination from a Historical Angle

Abstract

The 123 Agreement signed between the United States of America and the Republic of India known as the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement or Indo-US nuclear deal. The framework for this agreement was a July 18, 2005, joint statement by then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then US President Geroge W.Bush, under which India agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and to place all its civil nuclear facilities und International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and, in exchange, the United States agreed to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation with India.