As P K Iyenger, former chairman Atomic Energy Commission explains "It is easy to see why the US wants this deal so badly. At virtually no cost, since there is no commitment towards fuel supplies, they can cap our strategic programme, bring us into the NPT net, through the back door, as a non-nuclear power, keep a close eye on our nuclear activities, including R&D, through intrusive IAEA inspections, and subjugate us to the wishes of the nuclear cartel." [12] Some like B Raman curiously slander these scientists on the petulant reasoning that they were raised in cold war environments. If this is so the case, then did the Americans impose sanctions on India in 1998 and consistently refuses to accommodate it as a responsible nuclear weapons state?
