Hopefully sane heads in Congress can prevail or we are all screwed

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Japan activists, media denounce Indian N-deal

Japanese media and activists on Sunday denounced a decision allowing India to engage in international nuclear trade, warning it could hinder future efforts to completely abolish nuclear weapons.

The Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls the export and sale of nuclear technology, approved a one-off waiver of its rules for India on Saturday. It was a vital step in securing a 2005 India-US civilian technology nuclear deal.

Japan is the only nation that has experienced nuclear attacks. The mayor of Hiroshima City, where the US military dropped an atomic bomb for the first time on August 6, 1945, deplored the move.

"It is clear that this will make the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) a dead letter and will become a huge obstacle for the future efforts toward complete abolition of nuclear weapons," Tadatoshi Akiba said in a statement.

"It is extremely regrettable that countries concerned, including our country, came to the unanimous agreement," he said, according to Jiji Press.

Japanese media had lamented Tokyo's decision to follow the US initiative despite a long-held policy by Japan to work towards non-proliferation.

The NSG had banned nuclear trading with India because it refuses to sign the NPT, having developed atomic bombs in secret and conducted its first nuclear test in 1974.

Washington wanted a special waiver so it could share civilian nuclear technology with New Delhi.

Critics say the deal undermines international non-proliferation efforts and accuse the nuclear powers of pursuing commercial and political gains.

"Double-standard for nuclear superpower," the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said in a headline.

"The decision is hard to understand," the Mainichi said in its editorial.

"We hold extremely strong worries that the international community's sound judgement about non-proliferation of nuclear weapons was bent by pressure from the United States," it said.

Japan has helped to weaken the NPT regime, the Mainichi added.

"Bad precedent for nuclear non-proliferation," the top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun said in a headline.

"There are worries that the bargain offer of the exception for India could prompt Iran and North Korea to seek the same treatment by interpreting the deal to their advantage," the Yomiuri said.

The influential Asahi Shimbun also expressed its worries that the deal would erode the foundation of the NPT regime and noted the NSG was created in response to the 1974 Indian nuclear experiment.

"Strong criticism has been voiced that the agreement goes against the spirit of the NPT regime," the Asahi said.


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America’s nuclear deal with India

Time to decide

Aug 28th 2008
From The Economist print edition

There should be no exemption for India from the world’s nuclear rules

IN A dangerous and unstable world, isn’t cementing friendship with an up-and-coming power such as India worth breaking a few rules for? That is the reasoning behind the Bush administration’s championing of a controversial civilian nuclear deal with India, which George Bush and India’s Manmohan Singh struck in 2005. To take effect it now needs only an India-sized hole to be punched next week in the global rules on nuclear trade and then a final nod from America’s Congress.

The trade restrictions of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) are supposed to apply to countries that, like India, have built bombs rather than sign up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In return for exempting India from these restrictions, the Bush administration hopes India will be a bulwark against China. Doubters in Congress and opponents abroad have also been lectured on the supposed benefits of bringing India into the “non-proliferation mainstream”.

The deal is being mis-sold on both counts. Some see it as a Nixon-to-China moment: Nixon opened diplomatic relations with Communist China to balance the Soviet Union; doing nuclear favours for India now will help balance a rising China. But India has no intention of picking America’s fights with China. The pending deal has, it is true, persuaded India to back without enthusiasm demands at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear guardian, for Iran to suspend suspect nuclear work. But Indian contacts with Iran, and other unsavoury regimes, remain unhelpfully close. The high-water mark of India’s helpfulness, such as it was, is passing.

As for India contributing to non-proliferation, the opposite is happening: the anti-proliferation consensus is being ruptured. For India, an exemption from NSG restrictions on nuclear trade would be an answer to its nuclear prayers: but its military ones, not its civilian ones. India is short of usable uranium. If it could buy foreign fuel for its civilian reactors, it could devote more of the stuff it makes at home to bomb-building. That alone ought to give pause to any government that takes seriously its obligation under the NPT’s Article 1: not to help others in any way with weapons-building.

Unlike members of the NSG, India has not only failed to sign the NPT, it has not signed the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty either. It claims to support a treaty to cut off the production of fissile material for bombs, knowing full well that negotiations on that treaty have been stuck for years. And unlike America, Russia, Britain, France and China, the five official nuclear powers, it refuses to cap uranium and plutonium production for military uses. India has agreed to put more civilian reactors under IAEA safeguards—but on the unilateral insistence it can take “special measures” (like tossing inspectors out) if its other demands are not met. These include the uninterrupted supply of foreign uranium fuel and help in building up a strategic fuel reserve.

India’s purpose is clear. It wants to leave itself the option of more bomb tests in future, while being able to ride out any sanctions—including from America, whose laws would require them—that would follow. Congress may not have noticed, but American officials have been coaching India in avoidance tactics: buy your uranium fuel from others, not us, they suggest, and you’re in the clear.
Just say no

The NSG was set up precisely to stop countries doing what India did to get a start in the bomb business: abusing technology and skills provided for civilian purposes. The group’s ban on trade with countries that break the non-proliferation rules has been the chief underpinning of the NPT regime. Waive the ban and the NSG will have little point. It should refuse to make an exception for India. And so should America’s Congress.

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Germany is now the new US poodle state by passing UK

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End of India nuclear ban paves way for U.S. trade deal

(CNN) -- The leaders of the United States and India on Saturday hailed a decision by 45 nations that withdraws a worldwide ban on nuclear trade with India.

The move in Vienna on Saturday by the Nuclear Suppliers Group helps pave the way for the passage of a proposed civil nuclear deal between the United States and India by the U.S. Congress.

The White House said President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke by phone on Saturday and "congratulated each other" over the decision by the group, made up of the United States and other nations that supply nuclear material and technology.

The White House called the development a "product of an unprecedented three-year effort" and a key move toward "strengthening the strategic partnership" between the countries.

"This is a historic achievement that strengthens global nonproliferation principals while assisting India to meet its energy requirements in an environmentally friendly manner," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

The White House thanked the governments in the group, and singled out Germany for its role in the process.

Singh hailed the decision on Saturday by the Nuclear Suppliers Group in Vienna, Austria "to adjust its guidelines to enable full civil nuclear cooperation with India."

He called the decision "forward-looking and momentous" and said "it marks the end of India's decades long isolation from the nuclear mainstream and of the technology denial regime."

"It is a recognition of India's impeccable non-proliferation credentials and its status as a state with advanced nuclear technology. It will give an impetus to India's pursuit of environmentally sustainable economic growth."

He said the opening of "full civil nuclear cooperation between India and the international community will be good for India and for the world."

External Affairs Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee praised the efforts of the United States, France, United Kingdom and Russia and the support from the present and former NSG chairs -- Germany, South Africa and Brazil.

"This decision will open a new chapter in India's cooperation with other countries in peaceful uses of nuclear energy," Mukherjee said.

The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago.

Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants. That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements.

In return, India has promised that it would not transfer the fuel and equipment to its weapons program, and it would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect at least 14 of its 22 nuclear plants.

The plan would also expand U.S.-India cooperation in energy and satellite technology. The plan was approved by India's Cabinet last year, and does not have to be ratified by the parliament.

The deal had been threatened in July, when Singh was subject to a no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. He survived the vote, which was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the United States.

The leaders of India's two communist parties -- which hold about 60 seats in Parliament -- had accused Singh of surrendering India's sovereignty to the United States with the deal.

A no-confidence vote would have forced Singh to resign, and required the government to hold early elections unless a new coalition could have been formed.

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Dr. B. K. Subba Rao a former Indian Navy Captain, who holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Technology from the I.I.T., has
charged the Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai with passing off a thermonuclear device with the yield in
mere kilotonnes as a success while it was in fact a failure.

He says in a statement:

India alone, and not the rest of the world, will be the Books loser, if Indians are not able to know the true picture
about the nuclear explosions carried out at Pokhran on May 11 and May 13, 1998.

it seems the chinglus r undegoing a phase of extreme mental shock over indian nuclear deal ..........

That's because the nuclear deal is nothing more than a smoke screen for India to get more nuclear weapons, don't worry Pakistan will soon get a similar deal soon enough.



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wow i salute u for ur remarkable intelligence ............

SURRENDER OF PAKI ARMY IN 1971


1N 1971 A NEW HISTORY AS WELL AS A NEW NATION WAS CREATED BY WE THE INDIANS..

Type98G lifeisone and this punit guy are the same person
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"warning it could hinder future efforts to completely abolish nuclear weapons."


Lmfao. Are the Japs retarded? Good luck completely abolishing nuclear weapons hahaha.

Long Live India

Quote: Lmfao. Are the Japs retarded? Good luck completely abolishing nuclear weapons hahaha.

i dont think they are but they do know how a NUKE feels and they dont want others to feel the pain that was caused to them




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