Siegfried Hecker, the Co Director for the Centre for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, told a Senate Sub Committee on Appropriations dealing with Energy that "India does not view itself as a proliferator but as a legitimate nuclear weapons state."
"I don't think our sanctions have particularly stopped its (India) nuclear weapons programme. What our sanctions have done is slow down their nuclear energy programmes," he said.
"In turn, they have made the Indians actually significantly more capable in nuclear energy technology to where today it may actually