The continuing uncertainty overthe implementation of the historic civil-nuclear cooperation agreement betweenIndia and the US casts a pall over a fledgling strategic relationship betweenthe world’s two largest democracies. It was India’s nuclear weapons test in1998 that thrust India into the US strategic agenda and started a dialogue thathas blossomed into a closer relationship. It would be ironic if disagreementover the implementation of the treaty now set back relations.