What if at a later date when india has nuclear weapons - will it not be violative of the agreement since the agreement identifies india as a non nuclear weapons state? just a thought
RE:Clarification
by mohsin on Jul 10, 2008 06:11 PM Permalink
Precisely, thats the whole point! India will have to forget being a Nuclear Weapons State, thats what US and their ally's, including our neighbours want.
RE:Clarification
by All Right on Jul 10, 2008 06:14 PM Permalink
First of all, India already possess nuclear weapons. That's the best part of the deal. It fakes acceptance that India is a non-weapon state though conferring us all the privilege of a weapons state. This is not the case with Iran, Iraq, N Korea
RE:Clarification
by DEBADATTA MISHRA on Jul 10, 2008 06:24 PM Permalink
so we can do another pokhran then , without anybody losing any sleep on that, i thought testing is important part scientific research
RE:RE:Clarification
by All Right on Jul 10, 2008 06:30 PM Permalink
Two types we tested and how did the world react? They imposed all kinds of sanctions. When India conducted Pokhran II under the NDA regime, the US reacted by constituting the Nuclear Supply Group (NSG) which presently has 45 countries as its members. For countries to engage in nuclear transactions globally, it needed a NSG waiver. Because India did not have a NSG waiver, our nuclear program in this country began to hurt. Uranium supplies, spares etc dried up and consequently nuclear power generation capacity are operating at less than 50%. This means that the thousands of crores invested by the country is not providing full value in returns. The US is the most influential member of the NSG. Without US support, no waiver is possible. So the necessity of first striking a deal with the US, which even the Chinese have entered into.
he operating word is in the event of nuclear testing. Even here the agreement provides an exception - the right to test if China or Pakistan tests.
No one in the nuclear community believes any more for the need to physically test. They now test through computer simulation using past test data.
This is the reason why Vajpayee government shrewdly went for a series of explosions (5 to be precise) - to generate such a data base.
Having done that Vajpayee (1999) and Jaswant Singh (2000) gave an assurance to the world through their address to the General Assembly of the UN that India no longer needs to explode any nuclear devise.
RE:Clarification
by DEBADATTA MISHRA on Jul 10, 2008 06:36 PM Permalink
thats the exact question, this world is never very friendly isn't it? when we did something they were doing for so long we got slapped with sanctions, then how can you be so sure they will help if we face another problem of sucjh margin
and whats the heck with this chinese and pakistani test, are we some ridiculous people who will follow pakistan and chinese , do not we have our own identity, cant we feel to test something before pakistan and chinese, next time we develop somthing new we have to give it to china and pakistan so that they can test first so that we can get our chance next
