Deal with India to ensure "nuclear safeguards"? Anyone heard of this?

[gateley]

This is all the info I have -- just the end of an article about Hagel, Biden and Kerry going to Pakistan for the elections.

I hadn't heard of this deal - have you? If you "get it" (I don't) should we be concerned that it's 'dead in the water'?

"Biden also said a U.S. deal to ship civilian nuclear technology and fuel to India in return for nuclear safeguards appears to be "dead in the water."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1aBshjF1CnfJ4noaEXA_Vb8dm-gD8UR0FTG2

[bananas]

1. "nukes for mangoes" aka "123"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x133923
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x133913

[gateley]

2. Thank you! You're pretty damn amazing!! nt

[bananas]

3. Thanks - this deal can be very confusing

It is presented to the public very differently in the U.S. and India.
Indians are very proud of their nuclear weapons and want more.
So in India, it is presented as not restricting their ability to make and test weapons.
But in the U.S., Congress and citizens are concerned about proliferation, so it is presented as not allowing nuclear proliferation.
Here are some more articles I posted.

FAS: India Gets a Deal (FAS = Federation of American Scientists):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=107580

Truthout: This Business of a US-India Nuclear Deal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=107257

US says sovereign India can do what it wants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=109194

No mangoes for you: nukes-for-mangoes deal in "deep freeze" (The Guardian)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=116973

[gateley]

4. Again, thanks. If I were Prez, I'd offer you the ambassadorship to India - you

no doubt know more about the actual situation that our beloved administration. :hi:

[Ian David]

5. That's too bad. I love mangoes. n/t