It is not madness but it is called safeguarding your interests. The deal is about civilian nuclear cooperation not about nuclear weapons. The bill US congress passed makes it clear that India will not get any dual use technology. That should be the end of the story. India's problem is nuclear fuel rather than technology. US does not have the best nuclear technology anyway. Whatever it has, it will never part with it. India should keep it simple. If any nation helps India with a nuclear plant, they can have all the inspections there, but what is made by Indian scientists should never be open to any inspections. You do not want Indian nuclear scientists to start disappearing like what has happened to some of the Pakistani scientists. Western countries especially US will never allow India to come up, atleast there is no sign till now that they will.
