Reuters: Changes urged in U.S.-India nuclear deal

[Eugene]

Changes urged in U.S.-India nuclear deal

By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent
Reuters

Nov 14, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arms control advocates urged changes
in a U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement on Tuesday as the U.S. Senate
prepared to resume action on the long-stalled deal.

The initiative, allowing nuclear-armed India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and
reactors for the first time in three decades, is expected to be taken up by the
Senate as early as Wednesday, Senate sources said.

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The 18 arms control advocates, in a letter to senators, said that without
amendments, the proposed legislation before the Senate "would have far-reaching
and adverse effects on U.S. nonproliferation and security objectives."

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They said that before nuclear cooperation begins, the United States should
determine that India has stopped producing fissile material and that the civil
nuclear trade does not in any way assist India's nuclear weapons program.

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Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2652464

[denverbill]

1. Well, hurry up. I'm anxiously awaiting my Indian mangoes. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

2. Funny thang; the citizens of India don't care for us much.

But we don't mind them having nukes.

Like Pakistan.

Nukes are a good thing. Cept when we say they're a bad thing.

(And so many Americans still wonder why the world despises us.)