The most crucial issue that affected U.S.-India relations for a long time in the contemporary period is nuclear non-proliferation. Conflicts between the two countries relating to non-proliferation issues had existed for a long period of time. The issue was pitchforked onto the centrestage of world politics with India's Pokharan - II testing in 1998. The United States had assumed leadership role over the non-proliferation regime in recent decades. In attempting to create various regimes to checkmate the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other sensitive technologies, India had been the...