Comment on India joins elite missile tech group controlling global sale

The MTCR restricts the proliferation of missiles, rocket systems, unmanned air vehicles, or drones, and the technology for systems capable of carrying a payload of 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) for at least 300 kilometers (185 miles), as well as systems intended for the delivery of weapons of mass destruction. In 2008, India signed a landmark civil nuclear deal with the United States giving it some access to nuclear materials and technologies. [...] India has been pushing for its inclusion in the various elite groups that control the export of nuclear materials and regulate technologies relating to conventional, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.