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September 23, 2008 | Welcoming India to the Nuclear Club

India and the US are celebrating their new nuclear deal this week. ++ Critics fear an unraveling of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. ++ Notwithstanding, India will be one of the great world powers and there is an unfortunate, yet undeniable link between power and nuclear weapons. ++ Although it may be hypocritical to permit India and sanction Iran, India is a status quo power and a settled

January 31, 2008 | India Between Superpowers: Negotiating China and the US

Despite a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in recent days, India’s priority is clearly focused on the main actors in Asia: China and the US, says Frédéric Bobin of Le Monde. A rising power itself, India is now stuck in the position of doing a diplomatic dance between the two superpowers in an attempt to collude with the US without upsetting China. Although India is distrustful of a

June 6, 2007 | Somini Sengupta on the Fragile State of the U.S-India Nuclear Deal

The US-India nuclear deal might be at risk, argues Sengupta in an article for the World Security Network. The countries are particularly divided over two issues:

1. Granting India permission to carry out further nuclear tests and changing its status to a ‘nuclear weapons state’.
2. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuels. The US worries that spent fuel might be used for the production of