Nuclear Suppliers Group

And apart from the technological bit, there's also the geopolitical bit, right? Or the international politics bit.

That from 1970s to 2000s, for this period, there was an international grouping of countries called the Nuclear Suppliers Group, NSG in short.

That ensured India could not... import nuclear-taken material easily.

They ensured that our access to nuclear-taken material was severely restricted.

... that they're working out with lots of countries to try to nip this, a lot of this stuff in the bud.

Uh, the Nuclear Suppliers Group is out there trying to create, um, a better environment for monitoring exports.

The IAEA is coming up with, uh, new protocols- To, um, be able to verify if people are, uh, are, are telling the truth when they say that their hands are clean.

I mean, there's a whole series of new tools and new levers that are coming into play to, to make it more difficult for the proliferators.

The NPT regulates state-to-state transfers and says nothing about terrorists.

The expert control regimes, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Australia Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime are voluntary clubs.

Resolution fifteen forty universalized their logic as binding law while explicitly affirming that it doesn't interfere with existing treaty obligations.

The implementation of the resolution runs through the fifteen forty committee.