Foreground: Donation of school uniforms to students of tribal school at Akkarpatti village, near Tarapur. Background: The Tarapur-1 and -2 Boiling Water Reactors, constructed for India by the U.S. in the 1960s.

Since shortly after the July 18, 2005 statement released by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, NSSPI has supported a variety of technically based analyses aimed at thoroughly understanding the implications of various directions the agreement for civil nuclear cooperation could take. Here "implications" include consequences of both the intended enhancement of India's ability to engage in normal international commerce in nuclear materials and technology, and perhaps unintended consequences of changes in India's ability to produce nuclear arms.

Detailed analyses include

• Paul Nelson, "Stability of the Prospective US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation," presented to the LNCV Workshop and Round Table on Cooperative Stability in South Asia: the New Regional Scenario and the India-Pakistan Nuclear Dimension, Como, Italy, October 2-3, 2006.
• Paul Nelson, T.V.K. Woddi and William S. Charlton, "Comments on "Fissile Materials in South Asia and the Implications of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal," preprint, January 6, 2007 (also NSSPI Report 07-010).
• T.V.K. Woddi, "Nuclear Fuel Cycle Assessment of India: A Technical Study for U.S.-India Cooperation," Ph.D. dissertation (Nuclear Engineering), Texas A&M University, December 2007.
• Paul Nelson, T.V.K. Woddi and William S. Charlton, "A Framework for Analysis of the Weapons Implications of the U.S.-India Nuclear Accord," NSSPI Report No. 07-080, October 10, 2007.

Brief popularized letters and opinion pieces based on these detailed technical analyses have appeared as follows:

• Paul Nelson, "Support of India's civil nuclear program requires caution by U.S.," Bay City Tribune, January 29, 2006.
• Paul Nelson, "Future view on nuclear peace," Houston Chronicle, February 16, 2007, p. B10.
• David R. Boyle, Warren F. Miller and Paul Nelson, "U.S.-India nuclear alert," Washington Times, July 15, 2007.
• Paul Nelson, "U.S.-India: Making Choices," Nuclear News, September 2007, p. 10.
• Paul Nelson, "One Last Comment," Nuclear News, June 2008, p. 11.
• Paul Nelson and David R. Boyle, "Flawed India-pact opposition," Washington Times, September 29, 2008.