After Eisenhower the next US president to visit India was Carter not Nixon. I agree it is not about nuclear weapons. It is about India's Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR)program. U.S. which has not built a nuclear power plant after 1978 would like a peek at FBR and if possible appropriate it and shackle India's further development of it under the guise of IAEA safeguards. I do not believe USA has advanced technology to offer, except perhaps safety features. The agreement may give India access to latest international nuclear power technology. But Indians should be able to master such technology and not be forever dependent on foreigners to build and operate nuclear power plant. Morever India should have the freedom to develop FBR (whether for defence or commercial power generation)without any hindrance from IAEA or Americans, safeguard its intellectual property rights to such technology and market it internationally on normal commercial terms without hindrance. India should insist on observing the letter and spirit of the agreement to the last detail and not allow Americans to bludgeon it into unilateral revisions in the false hopes of getting approval for the agreement from US Congress.
