Thanks rediff for this informative, well written and very explanatory article by Ambassador Sreenivasan. Catch 22 is glaringly obvious. Much will depend on the negotiating skills of our bureaucrats in the days to come and much will depend on the absence of politicians aggravating the process. Irrespective of the outcome, the NSG member states will come closer to recognising that India is ripe to be accomodated into main stream nuclear fraternity after addressing our security concerns. At the same time India will also get closer to serious negotiations in plugging of the security loops which prevent us from accepting NPT in its present form. NPT needs to succeed accommodating security concerns of all countries. A first step towards total phased eradication of nuclear weapons which hangs as a sword over the planet. There have been 5 recognised incidences which were close-calls in having an all out nuclear exchange during the cold war era. We seriously need to remove human beings ability of destroying the planet, given the unpredictability factor of the species.
