Global South & multilateral

Coverage balance

How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.

Dossiers

Actions in time order, by government

1. H. D. Deve Gowda, 1 Jun 1996 to 21 Apr 1997

   JD United Front government

   • ImplementedJD20 Aug 1996

     Decision not to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

     In August 1996 India declined to support the CTBT text at the Conference on Disarmament, objecting to its entry-into-force clause and the absence of time-bound disarmament. It later conducted tests in 1998.

     Evidence points +1.0 (range 0.0 to +2.0)