The U.S., Canada, and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1968-1974
Washington, D.C., December 9, 2022 – Canadian inspectors visiting the Canada-Indian Reactor (CIR) at Trombay during June 1968 were “unsettled” by data suggesting that India was heading toward the “development of a nuclear device,” according to a recently declassified U.S. State Department telegram obtained by the National Security Archive. Canadian nuclear experts later told U.S.