It is nearly impossible to comment on such a landmark deal without studying the final document. However, for any such agreement we must see the following to be kept in mind to hail it a super landmark deal: it must preserve the self respect of two great democratic countries. it should be transparent & meant to be fully implemented & not to hodwink public at large. Such an agreement is essential for the long term survival of not only these two countries but this planet itself. In the absence of such an agreement the two countries will leave such a large carbon footprint-because of their enormous energy need to be met from conventional fuel- that the world will simply be swamped under it. The two great nations owe it to the humanity to come up with a practical solution to be implimented as soon as possible.
RE:Indo-US Nuclear deal.
by Major Sassy on Jul 28, 2007 01:51 PM Permalink
Given the range of participants from the Indian side in the deal; DAE technocrats, BJP, congress etc etc... it would be very surprising will all of them colluded to make a shady deal or if all the Indian top brass was fooled.
If it is indeed so then we deserve the deal anyway
I guess India has managed a fairly good deal. Infact, it may be the benchmark for others to follow. If others ask such deals, then they have to behave and be prudent in Nuclear use as India has proved so far. Afteraal, we have behaved quite responsiblle manner in all these years. Our need for energy is going to go real high in coming years. We need to think beyound the conventional energy sources. On the other hand future nuclear weapons are going to be smaller and smarter. We might not even need Nuclear tests in future; we could do with lab simulations.
