Playing Nuclear Favorites: US Congress Favors India

The 109th Congress passed a nuclear trade bill as they finished their legislative business that permits India to purchase nuclear fuel and technology from the US. Joe Cirincione of the Center for American Progress says this is a decision that America could come to regret and might spark a nuclear arms race in southeast Asia.

Read Joe's latest column on this here:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/12/india_deal.html

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[rgz500]

India has never invaded any other country, only defended itself for the past 2000 yrs. Also, the uranium is for civilian purposes only

[abujahl007]

Rules? Who sets the rules? China is one of the worst proliferators in the world.

[ajaypatel75]

NPT is bullshit. If something leads to very volatile situation no treaty will stop anyone from using Nukes.

[leonard1102]

you were wrong, not everyone believes that they have to use nuclear weapon for Jesus.

[NPegasus]

As a congressman, he makes a fair argument. However, the real problem is with the NPT itself. NPT is not a gold standard because, for decades, the NPT has been constantly violated by the NPT signatories themselves. The sanctity of the NPT was already jeopardized when the NPT signatories neither reduced existing stockpiles of nukes nor stopped nuke proliferation to rogue states.

I will not be surprised if India signs the NPT/CTBT in next 2-3 years.

[bengu666]

Its very easy 4 u to pontificate, u dont have china and pakis as neighbors!

[ericos87]

hasn't india become a member of the nuclear club. google india jins nuclear club.

[protikmaitra]

I agree. Although I don't want a single party hard line communist government, we definitely should have a socialist democracy and fine tune our policies so that the benefits of economic growth can reach every nook and corner of the country. Otherwise, this will cause polarisation of the population, an ideal ground for dissent, rebellion and civil-war.

[silverbackman]

Yeah I think India should have continued the fight for a free socialist republic instead of moving on the path of capitalism. In fact India should have been the ideal socialist model for all the world to see....now they are giving way to the western materialism. I honestly don't want India to go the way of China in becoming another harbor for american cultural colonialism.

[silverbackman]

I don't get your point here. So having lots of millionaires and billionaires makes India great? Despite the grinding poverty that hundreds of millions live in, something India hasn't been able to change until pretty recently. And economic growth ain't everything, not at all. China has higher economic growth than India and yet it's an oppressive system.I'm not saying India is as bad, it after all is one of the freest countries of Asia. I just hope India won't become another nation of Mcdonalds;).

[protikmaitra]

The US is a 2-party Presidential system where only the election is democratic, but the governance is not completely democratic. India, UK and many European countries have multi-party parliamentary democracies that can be called true democracy.

India has achieved a lot since independence. However, since we all want India to become better, we must identify the negative sides of our country, not to insult our land, but to rectify the deficiencies that we have within us.