Our scientists report directly to the prime minister and carry an enormous respect and credibility in the indian public eye. We are proud of them. If they feel they will get want they want, then the political establishment should should de-ice their their cold war vision and work with the americans on a need basis. Obviously, countries renege on contracts if they are untenable ( read kyoto, Ballistic missiles etc). It would only be a crime if we went the chinese route and signed npt and profiliferated the same technology to pakistan and eventually to n.korea.
I live in the US right now and genuinely beleive the us has good intentions as well as commercial interests in this deal. I think it is win-win. May the governmental friendship grow.
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by Ranjan Watson on Jul 23, 2007 09:38 AM Permalink
Dear Prasad what you say makes a lot of sense. The post cold war interational relations can be worked for the advantage of India. Brokering a meaningful nuclear deal with US should serve the intersts of both countries. However, the deal should be open to scrutiny by scientists and environmentalists, not the over zealous ones who want to take everybody to the dark ages but those who dont black mail policy makers through protests. Our relationship with USSR should be reviewed. And offcourse China is out of question due to its duplicity of supporting Pakistan. Now that the US wants a stablizing presence in the sub-continent, I think its old allinace with Pakistan will not be detrimental or lopsided against India.
