In June 2008, amid giddy talk of US-India nuclear cooperation and strategic alignment, a district court in Washington DC sentenced Parthasarathy Sudarshan, CEO of an electronics firm with offices in South Carolina, Singapore, and Bangalore, to 35 months in prison for conspiring to illegally export 500 i960 microprocessors to aid in the development of India’ ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, and fighter jets, including Tejas.