Like it or not, nukes with India is to stay. Either you can accept the reality and take measures and safeguards so that it will remain secure. Bush sees India as a responsible nuclear power and hence the deal!
We had this treaty for 20 odd years but still India, Pakistan, Israel managed to get the bombs. It means wither the NPT is not effective, or the signatories of NPT are violating their conditions.
US understood that with or with out its help India will keep bombmaking and there no one can stop it. As I said, its better to teach India state of the art technologies for the safe keeping of nukes and associated materials.
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If India receives this favor, can Israel and Pakistan be far behind?
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Well, to start with Israel has not advertised it. Pakistan first has to get its act straight, we just know about 1 AQKhan, dunno how many still are under the carpet.
Comparing India and Iran is atupid. India did not sign NPT or CTBT while Iran and NK did. So India did not violate any freakin global treaty. India can anyway build and operate its own nuclear reactors and no one can stop it. But Iran has signed them, so if it decides to build enrichement plants then it will directly violate NPT.
All the hoo haa's are for nations that are yet to acquire the tech, not for countries who already has them. Else include P-5 in the list as well.
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Moreover, both China and Pakistan will be motivated to accelerate their own weapons programs and their mutual nuclear cooperation. Pakistani officials will not be more cooperative in the stalled investigation of Khan's activities. Adding the risk to the nonproliferation treaty to this poisonous mix makes the president's proposal a marked retreat from half a century of American leadership in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Again its BS. China already has enuf nuclear cooperation with Pakistan, so its nothing new to them. In a way, atleast they would do it in daylight so we can asses what kinda tech tranfers happened between them.