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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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  1. One of the most horrible things I've seen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is the Micropenis. Apparently this is a real medical condition. I'm telling you it's horrible.

  2. Re:My government is hypocritical by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  3. CHRISTIANS ARE A TARGET OF RELIGIOUS MUDER & R by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The mob appeared an hour after sunset, armed with axes, clubs and paraffin. The carnage that followed would have been much worse if the Christians of Gadragaon, a remote village in northeast India, had not been warned by text message: âoeThe Hindus are coming to kill you.â

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4687075.ece