I have read the Hyde Act in full and nowhere is it written that India must stop future nuclear tests or give up military nuclear research. The Act is only limited to the civilian nuclear cooperation. What I think is objectionable to the commies is the clause that seeks to cap the production of fissile material not only by India and Pakistan, but also by China, but the act clearly states that this should be done at the earliest, and there is no time frame mentioned. India can get out of the deal any day if the US seeks to cap her military activities. Please read the Hyde Act for yourself by googling it. The deal will free up India's uranium reserves for military use- the commies know that this would make India more powerful militarily vis-a-vis China, and so do not want India to sign the deal and raise the false bogey of US hegemony. now with Russia offering a deal too, they seem to have backed out. Also the deal may offer India technology consistent with generation of power directly from thorium, bypassing the need of fast breeder reactors, which would immensely benefit the country economically. This is anathema to the commies.
RE:N-deal
by Green Earth on Feb 14, 2008 09:14 PM Permalink
I have read the Hyde Act too........... and remember, no where does it says how to react on the event of India going for another nuclear test. What is US simply cease providing further fuel for the the reactors in India and forces all the countries in the NSG to follow the same? We will end up spending millions to build nuclear reactors which will benefit countries like US and still live in a fear of being deprived of Nuclear fuel if we wanted to carry out any inevitable nuclear tests in future. Its completely stupid. I would say we must turn our back on this deal and concentrate on the developing nuclear reactors which uses Thorium as its fuel. India has a large deposit of Thorium. We can't rule in pride if we live in fear. So just shun the US for dominating or pressurizing us.
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by Fried Yakov on Feb 14, 2008 09:55 PM Permalink
What prevents us from going on with our own research with thorium? If we treat the deal as only a temporary measure to get more nuclear energy for civilian purposes and free our meagure resources of uranium for military use, it would make perfect sense for India. Also the act states that the nuclear waste should not be returned to USA. That serves India well too- the nuclear waste can probably be used in fast breeder reactors in ways developed by Indian scientists to national benefit. Signing the deal will buy us time to develop and perfect our thorium use technologies, in event of a later clampdown by the US/NSG.
