Dear Friends I seen one comment and i seriously liked it and the comment was "For the God sake dont give opinion without Knowledge".Everyone is comming here with opinion for and against the deal.If you guys dont know just one clause and its interpretation in 123 Agreement can change the whole meaning of the deal.Secondly while no one can deny the urgent need of energy in a populous country like us, we should also keep in mind that we should not enter in a deal that compromise our soverignity in terms of Nuclear tests in future.We are a growing economy with a rapid pace and we need energy more than anything at present.But lets be clear about the deal, so that any wrong deal does not affect our future genereations and our country.Once deal materialises, and later it scarps at some point because of Nuke test of india, the economic losses may be irreversible.Please dear all keep it in mind and think 1000 times before commenting such a sensitive issue.I think setup of a commettee and analysis of the most concerning clause i.e. "Hyde Act" will only do good and put us in position to take the best informed decision.
RE:Nuke Deal
by Niranjan Limaye on Aug 20, 2007 10:33 PM Permalink
That one clause and its sub-clause says situation at that time will be judged and discussed and president of united states at that time will determine the need to revoke the deal. This is very diplomatic and beurocratic which dumb and dumbers like muggers like communist will never understand. Afterall its a deal between 2 countries , hence they would like to keep certain clauses open-ended for future purpose. If US is coming forward and breaking the rule, why worms are tickling in communist ass?
Anywayz, the 123 is defintely better than the 12345 point agreement the old P.M. Jawarrhal Nehroo signed with the Chinese in 1962 and got stabbed in the back and a lot of territory snatched away ! ha ha ha ha.......
RE:Nuke Deal
by ravikumar sivaramakrishnan on Aug 20, 2007 10:38 PM Permalink
Dear friend Does china being NPT signatory nation not involved in nuclear testing,Selling Technology, knowhow to pakistan? What US had done to China? Let us also grow beyond China and that time no such silly worries will come.
RE:Nuke Deal
by raghu tiwari on Aug 20, 2007 10:48 PM Permalink
Hi Ravi You are right that China has did a lot of deviations and US is not in a position to exercise its power on China.Neither i am aware what a country has to bear with if being a NPT signatory it voilates its terms and conditions. But i think China is more reliable on its own Nuclear Fuel than India, though i have no clear statistics about it. So putting a restriction on India will hurt it far more than it will to China i suppose.
RE:Nuke Deal
by Amrit Singh on Aug 20, 2007 10:29 PM Permalink
Quite true. India's foreign policy and energy security should not be compromised. We should not live in luxury at the mercy or goodwill of others. Why cant India itself produce nuclear techonoly and y cant we buy the technology from the old Russian friends
You are absolutely right that India should be self relient in Nuke technology and your suggestion to rely on Russia is also good.But as for as India is concerned, Nuclear Technology issue can be solved i hope in india itself by our talented scientists, but we struck about Nuclear Fuel like Uranium , Plutonium etc. If i am right there are almost 45 countries who export these substances but they work under strict International rules and hence even if India develops the technology indegeniously, it has to rely on these countries for the fuel.So there is a sort of dependency for the fuel even if one has technology.
RE:RE:Nuke Deal
by raghu tiwari on Aug 20, 2007 11:01 PM Permalink
Hi Mikkey Moouse Thanks for the detail and i dont want to guess your nationality.But just being rational, i can say it does not matter who and how many indian scientists are workin in USA, still we have a talented and reliable pool of scientists who can do wonders and all indians have full faith in them. Remember the Nuke test at the time of AB Vajpayee Govt., US always boasted about capacity of its sattelites, and they could measure nothing about indian Nuke test. Just one example of talent of Indian scientists.
RE:RE:Nuke Deal
by Niranjan Limaye on Aug 20, 2007 10:48 PM Permalink
Good argument raghu, but in-case of failure of this deal it will open doors to these other sellers (remaining 44 countries). US can not play its diplomatic card with every country. Hence this deal is beneficial in either ways.
