India-US: Trust & necessity

In September 2008, after the Nuclear Suppliers' Group's (NSG) waiver to the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "It marks the end of India's decades long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and technology denial regime." In June 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the US Congress that India and the US have overcome "the hesitations of history", and called for ever-stronger economic and defence ties. Six years later, the end of the "technology denial regime" and the overcoming of the "hesitations of history" had developed into the Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET), which President Joe Biden…