Congress leaders and the PM keep saying the nuclear deal with USA is in the 'National Interest' of the country. Can someone clarify which country's national interest, India or USA? If it is in India's interest, can that be explained / elaborated by anyone?
RE:Nuclear deal in our 'NATIONAL INTEREST' ???
by Suresh Pandey on Jul 10, 2008 06:10 PM Permalink
we pay really high cost in terms of fuel and we all feel it. Smae will be true for electricity.coal is an option but it is not environment friendly. Look at Hine most poluted. As for other means like wind and thermal notonly are they too expnsive no body knows if theye will be useful or not. Nuclear is the way to go. In next 8 ysr we cna have enough nuclear reactors and uranium ot genartae electricity at reduced rate in 10 yrs perhaps. Without this argeement we will not have enough uranium. WIth this agreement we can now buy uranium. Now i agree US will benfit too but we have option to buy from any G8 so when it is cheap we buy and stock.
RE:Nuclear deal in our 'NATIONAL INTEREST' ???
by All Right on Jul 10, 2008 06:05 PM Permalink
Whose national interest? Certainly not China or otherwise the commies won't be so angry.
It is is more in Indian national interest:
a. It permits us to have a military program b. It consolidates and let us expand our civilian nuclear program. All it does is that it ensures all assistance towards our civilian program is not diverted for military purpose c. At present we are unable to trade in the global nuclear mkt because we do not have a NSG waiver. Once we secure it, we can. So the NSG waiver is more important that the Indo-US deal. d. We can scrap even the Indo-US deal, by giving one year's notice
