Mr.c I fully accept your view that India as a sovereign state should not surrender its foreign policies to USA, But i don't understand how signing the deal will make it? If you don't mind i like to tell you once this deal gets through we can get NSG give a "GO" sign for nuclear co-operation with us to other members of NSG, with with we will be able to extract the same or better deals. I hope this clears your droughts. And don't think we can convince the NSG by ourself even Russia was not able to do it(remember koodankulam project?).