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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."
You nailed it on the head.
Probably none, nor has Iran.
It is astounding how much innuendo and false propaganda get hyped in the USA mass media and left essentially uncorrected.
Half? The only people not represented are under 18 or 21 (whatver the voting age is.) I refuse to believe that's 1/2 the population.
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Since when do US Citizens matter in US nuclear policy? The entire US nuclear program was built by Germans, Britishers, Italians and what not. This is about business . The US has nuclear companies who cant sell in the US market so they need new markets and the Indian market is a big market. Also its kind of sweet justice as the entire NSG was setup to prevent India from having cheap nuclear power(India already had bombs when the NSG was setup. It was efficient power reactors which the embargo was all about). Well I guess the opinion in the west about the suitability of the Brown man to have advanced tech has changed.
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Er, no. The website you cited is Pakistani state sponsored historical revisionism and propaganda, and is widely disseminated by the Pakistan lobby for the purposes of self-comfort and glorification. Those are not the facts. Islam has no vested interest in segregating themselves from non Muslims. It's far more in tune with Islam that they coexist with infidels and wage demographic warfare until they become the majority and then impose Islamic dhimmi laws upon non Muslim subjects (as they have done for centuries). Read some more scholarly renditions of South Asian history, particularly that of secular scholars like Pakistan's own Ayesha Jalal and her book :
"Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia"
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Authoritarianism-South-Asia-Contemporary/dp/0521478626
Jinnah (the so-called "founder" of Pakistan) was using the "Two Nation Theory" as a ploy to gain political mileage. Most of the Deobandi-schooled militant Islamists in British India, led by the dangerously fascist Jamaat-e-Islami under Maulana Abul Ala Mawdudi (who, by his own words, wanted to implement an "Islamic Theodemocracy" in South Asia modelled on Fascist Italy with an Islamic face), were opposed to partition. When it became obvious as to what the Islamic agenda for opposing partition really was, the people turned in favor of the idea.
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