Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure pokuurawa kwaKennedy muna 1963, ukama hweIndia neU.S. hwakaipa zvishoma nezvishoma. Nepo mutsivi waKennedy Lyndon B. Johnson akatsvaka kuchengeta ukama neIndia kuti arwisane neChina chechiKomonisiti, akatsvakawo kusimbisa ukama nePakistan netariro yokuderedza makakatanwa neChina uye kunetesa kuwanda kweuto reIndia. Ukama hwacho hwakabva hwaderera zvikuru muhurumende yaNixon mukutanga kwema1970.Nixon akachinja kubva pakuva asina kwaakarerekera sezvakanga zvaitwa nevakanga vamutangira pakurwisana kweIndia nePakistan. Iye akavamba ukama hwapedyo zvikuru nePakistan, achibetsera nenzira yehondo neyemari, sezvo India, zvino iri pasi pokutungamirira kwaIndira Gandhi, yakanga ichinamira kuSoviet Union. Iye akarangarira Pakistan somubatsiri anokosha zvikuru kudzivisa pesvedzero yeSoviet muIndia uye kutanga ukama neChina, iyo Pakistan yakanga iri pedyo zvikuru nayo. Ukama hwomunhu oga hunotonhora pakati paNixon naIndira hwakatowedzera ukama hwakashata pakati pamarudzi maviri. Mukati me 1971 Hondo yeIndo-Pakistani
, US yakatsigira pachena Pakistan uye yakatumira ndege yayo inotakura ndege USS "Enterprise" yakananga kuBay of Bengal, iyo yakaonekwa sekuratidzwa kwesimba neUS mukutsigira mauto eWest Pakistan. Gare gare muna 1974, India yakaita bvunzo yayo yokutanga yenyukireya, Smiling Buddha, iyo yakashorwa neUS, zvisinei yakagumisawo kuti bvunzo haina kutyora chero chibvumirano uye yakaenderera mberi nekutakura kwaJune 1974 kweiyo enriched uranium yeTarapur reactor.