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| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
My question for those of you who support this action by the U.S is how in the hell is doing something like this could ever stabilize the region? |
a. because India would have to get the technology from someone else.
b. without this agreement there would be ZERO transparency.
c. having better cooperation and understanding between Non-Proliferation Treaty countries and India can eventually bring India into the non-proliferation fold or if anything keep them peaceful.
| quote: | | Also Why isnt the U.N. all over this? |
a. the UN can't be depended on to initiate or enforce anything of substance, really.
b. you obviously didn't read the conditions of the deal.
*India agrees to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog group, access to its civilian nuclear program. But India would decide which of its many nuclear facilities to classify as civilian. Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says these will now include domestically built plants, which India has not been willing to safeguard before now. Military facilities—and stockpiles of nuclear fuel that India has produced up to now—will be exempt from inspections or safeguards.
*India commits to signing an Additional Protocol (PDF)—which allows more intrusive IAEA inspections—or its civilian facilities.
*India agrees to continue its moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.
*India commits to strengthening the security of its nuclear arsenals.
*India works toward negotiating a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) with the United States banning the production of fissile material for weapons purposes.
*India agrees to prevent the spread of enrichment and reprocessing technologies to states that don't possess them and to support international nonproliferation efforts.
*U.S. companies will be allowed to build nuclear reactors in India and provide nuclear fuel for its civilian energy program.
the deal brings the full power and support of the UN's IAEA inspections to civilian facilities of India's choosing with consessions of more openess in the future.
the military instalations are another story that probably involve Indian security issues. but this is a start.
| quote: | just imagine if lets say Russia did a similar deal with Iran,hell would brake loose. |
Russia has. thats not even news anymore.
Last edited by Q5echo on Aug-07-2007 at 08:31
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