Ama gadhey, Don't we dangle the carrrot of cheap software to US? This is globalization, you buy things from geographies which are good in that area. Obviously national security needs to be taken care of. Thats why manufacturing in China, cars in Japan, IP in US etc. Now, India is one of 15 nuclear capable countries (if including civil nuclear tech). It has all the reasons to take leadership in this area. In fact India has made big strides in this, but has been stymied in some areas like centrifuges (in nukes) and cryogenics (in misslies). So signing this agreement will give us a channel at least in civic areas.
Please note that this agreement is MORE about fuel and less about technology. Please tell me where in agreement it is written that we HAVe to buy technology from US? In fact Australians are drooling at the idea of selling us technology, but they are waiting for this deal also.
Isiliye partner, do not talk without sufficient data. Pahle research fir bakbak