The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT or NNPT) is a treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, opened for signature on July 1, 1968. There are currently 189 countries party to the treaty, five of which have nuclear weapons: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the People's Republic of China (the permanent members of the UN Security Council) .
Only four recognized sovereign states are not parties to the treaty: India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea. India and Pakistan both possess and have openly tested nuclear bombs. Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea acceded to the treaty, violated it, and later withdrew.
Now US is saying without NPT we can go ahead with this so called deal but it will not work with permanant members of security council except US for its own interest, besides that India, Pakistan, and North Korea - have not signed the CTBT aswell How dangerous it could be to keep our weapons down before the enemy does? or is this america wants us to do... simple check and mate "chit bhi meri aur pat bhi" then, when everytime pakistan will threaten us Pizza man will run to US for help?
RE:Facts of The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation...
by All Right on Jul 25, 2008 10:14 AM Permalink
It was Vajpayee and Jaswant Singh who wanted to sign the NPT and CTBT. This is on record - their speeches at the UN and reference in Talbot (former US Ambassdor)'s book.
The deal does not curb our militrary program. It is a civil deal. It means if we chose to nuclear trade with US, we need to confine it within a civilian framework. To ensure we do cheat by diverting these assistance for nuclear weaponization, the IAEA safeguards come into effect.
We have 22 reactors and building another 6 reactors. Half will fall under the safeguards. We chose which reactors will be under safeguards.
The military reactors are kept out of the safeguard. Here we use our technology and fuel or those provided by friendly countries like France, Russia etc for this purpose. Our uranium reserves are limited. So the deal entails us to source imported supply from global markets. This frees up our own internal uranium supply which will be used entirely for weaponization.
The deal does not mean that we have to trade only with the US. It is an enabling agreement that gives the NSG waiver so that we can trade with whoever we want, including the US.
India has thorium and cutting edge (fast breeder) technology - which we can sell, the revenue of which we can invest in expanding our reactor capacity using also imports
RE:Facts of The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation...
by Dipak Bose on Jul 25, 2008 12:43 PM Permalink
India has no technology: Don't talk rubbish. India cannot even make the fuels for its nuclear reactors; it had to beg from China and Russia. All nuclear reactors in India and every other facilities associated with these came from USA and Canada before 1974 and from Russia thereafter. India has not developed anything.
