You keep discussing this as if the US did it alone.
India and the US made a treaty.
That is good. The future is coalitions of the willing not UN norms of inhumanity.
Democracies are on the rise and they will thwart the anti-democracies such as Pakistan.
That will be the story of the 21st century.
I would rather Mexico have nukes than Pakistan or North Korea.
Of course they didn’t do it alone.
I hope you’re right about the future belonging to democracies. It’s certainly what I and all my kin will be fighting for.
However, I believe the execution of the India-US plan was poor and allows other less benign sharings of nuclear technology which will claim to be equally benign and cite it
as a precedent.