India Joins Nuclear Market

figona brings news that India will be allowed to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). A waiver was approved yesterday that provided an exception to the requirements that India sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. This means India will be able to buy nuclear fuel from the world market and purchase reactors from the US, France, and Russia; something it has been unable to do since it began nuclear testing in 1974 (which inspired the creation of the NSG). The waiver does not include terms to cut off access if India resumes nuclear testing, but the US Congress drafted a letter stating their willingness to do so. Opponents of the waiver have called it a "non-proliferation disaster."

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Re:My government is hypocritical

[WindBourne]

So is Iran. I am no fan of theirs, and as long as dippy boy does nothing disasterous, the hard core in Iran will be gone. And even though I am a fan of allowing India access to nuclear material, I think that it is hypocritical and arrogant that we do not allow Iran as well.