Abstract
Topic:-From NAM to Nuclear India
This project revolves around India journey from being neutral inert party towards any alliance of super powers, disarmament policy and ideologies of peace to becoming one of the pioneering countries in the field of nuclear weapons developments, nuclear energy deal with the U.S and facing war and aggression from China and Pakistan, two of its neighbouring countries. The Non Aligned Movement (NAM) was created out of the desire to orient India’s foreign

policy towards the group of newly decolonized states, hoping to create a larger area of peace

by fighting common dangers of imperialism and racialism together.1 Nehru wanted India to

be the leader of the developing world, in this way carving out a global role for the country.

The principle of India’s leadership was to be based on moral rather than economic power.

India’s relations with the superpowers during the cold war were difficult as its non aligned

status was never really accepted by the US who saw India as being in the Soviet camp.
India’s foreign policy formulation changed first under the United Front governments in the

mid 1990s and then more radically under the BJP led NDA alliance in 1998. The backdrop

to the changes were the economic reforms which had been started in 1991. India was

opening up to the world and economic growth rather than self sufficiency became the major driver for international relations.

Today India stands proudly among few countries who are well equipped in the nuclear powers and thus we see a great transformation of India from its NAM ideologies to becoming Nuclear