India has consistently opposed international treaties focused on non-proliferation due to their selective application limited to non-nuclear states, which reinforces the dominance of the five nuclear-armed nations. As a result, India resisted the unlimited extension of the NPT in 1995 and declined to endorse the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

What was the response of the international community after the two Asian countries conducted the Nuclear Tests in 1998?

Sanctions were imposed on both countries.

India conducted a series of nuclear tests in May 1998, demonstrating its capacity to use nuclear energy for military purposes. Pakistan soon followed, thereby increasing the vulnerability of the region to a nuclear exchange. The international community was extremely critical of the nuclear tests in the subcontinent and sanctions were imposed on both India and Pakistan, which were subsequently waived.