What the U.S.-India nuclear accord reveals about science diplomacy

Former negotiators say the 2008 accord transformed U.S.-India relations and reshaped nuclear governance, even as its commercial ambitions largely went unrealized.

Then-U.S. president George W. Bush and India's then-prime minister Manmohan Singh exchange handshakes in New Delhi on March 2, 2006, clinching a groundbreaking civil nuclear agreement that granted India access to American civilian nuclear technology and fuel.

A landmark agreement that transformed U.S.-India relations and rewrote parts of the global nucle…