Australian Uranium and India: Ideology versus Pragmatism

This article is a study of the Australian government's policy of not selling uranium to India. Successive Australian governments have used the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to refuse India's repeated requests for uranium. This study looks at the Indian response to this policy and asks how long Australia can sustain its stand in the face of climate change, economic growth and growing bilateral relations between two democracies with shared interests.