ABSTRACT

Thus, there was a growing sense in influential quarters in the United States that export controls vis-a-vis India after 1998 were way too broad-in fact, were counterproductive. For instance, section 900 l (d) of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2000 stated,

[It] is the sense of Congress that the broad application of export controls to nearly 300 Indian and Pakistani entities is inconsistent with the

• Bharat Dyrrarnies Limited • The following subordinate entities of DRDO:

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The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States in September 2004 marked the end ofphase l of the NSSP. This phase saw forward movement in two areas:

lndia's strategic programs: problems with nuclear, possibilities with space