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March 24, 2006
From all accounts the Howard Government is drifting towards getting onboard with the American nuclear deal signmed in early March with India. Under a plan formally agreed when Bush met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the United States would help India build nuclear power plants. India would permit inspections of its civilian reactors, but there would be no oversight of its nuclear-weapons program.
Gary Markstein
The Bush administration has now asked the US Congress to exempt India from provisions of the Atomic Energy Act that curb trade with nations not party to nuclear treaties, as India is not a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
I find this deal disturbing because the nuclear cooperation between the United States and India does not conform to the rules of the global non-proliferation regime.
Unlike Iran, India is a nuclear weapon state outside the non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Washington, driven by geopolitical considerations to contain China, is arguing that India is the "nuclear exception". The key problem with the American deal is the failure by India to give a commitment to freeze production of fissible material for nuclear weapons. Australia is giving every sign of being comfortable with the lack of a cap on India's bomb-making fissible material.
The implication is that US and Australia----tagging along as usual ---is relaxed and comfortable with the further expansion of India's nuclear arsenal.
Where in the hell is the ALP on this? Why aren't they highlighting the double standards involved in the way the US deals with Iran and India over the nuclear issue?
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So the Bush administration has told congress to exempt India from the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act that curb trade with nations not party to nuclear treaty's,cause India didn't sign the non proliferation treaty.Umm me thinks it a bit late,being the Genie (Indian one of course not heaven forbid, an Islamic one not withstanding Pakistan))is out of the bottle.The re-action of the Bush administration to the fact that India and Pakistan has the bomb is worthy of a scetch by one of my hero's Spike Milligan and the Goons.I bet the poor shmuck at the C.I.A. that let this lot under their radar is dressed up as a Penguin at the South Pole some where?..spying on the Japenese whalers.Sorry being a republican administration probably Green Peace.Of course what makes all of this funnier than a barrel of monkey's Bush thinks India is part of Indianna.What are we gonna do when Bush retires?politics is gonna be as boring as bat shit.Oh by the way Gary,Im on the piss tonight at home,can't take anything serious.
Phill.