MichaelK

Superficially, your argument makes sense. But if you dig deeper, China and India will make the same number of bombs if they don't get the Uranium. But then their civilian nuclear facilities will suffer. And they will burn more oil.

Only solution is:

Step 1. India signs the NPT as the sixth nuclear weapons state. (India is ready to do so). This step is non-negotiable from the Indian standpoint.

Step 2. Once India signs, all the countries having nukes (whether or not they are NPT signatories) agree to simultaneously and verifiably destroy their nukes.

Step 3. A global force of watchdog nations should be willing to sanction and, if need be, attack any country that produces nukes henceforth.

If we start now, this can be easily achieved within 30 years or less, making all nations equal as far as possession of nuclear weapons.

I am a pro-nuke hawk, but if India is offered the NPT as a nuclear state, I and a billion people in India will work worldwide to make nuke free world a reality.

So let us join hands !!

Seemingly, one's luck of elementary acknowledgement with calcium-higher math, not speaking more on general approaches and mentalities, contributes sometimes a little to ease communication, ecotrin.

Sharing concern of non-proliferation is not synonymous to really preventing the spreading of nuke technologies round the globe as history manifested.

Apparently, pushing India into the NPT is a very goal of the USA by de-facto cat and mouse game on nuke-relations topic occurring.

However, call for annihilating nuclear ammunitions is rather naïve than practical because it benefits illegal owners of such stuff and simply terrorists not destroying but possessing any sort of the WMD, intensifying pressure on a nuke-free world.

And beyond my comprehension, supplying a priceless resource worldwide supposes to upheld a colonial appendix status even on technical merits explicitly.