Haider Rizvi
Inter Press Service English News Wire
01-21-2008
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Democratic-led
U.S. Congress is coming under heavy pressure from environmental and
arms control lobbyists to reject the White House's move to sell
U.S. nuclear technologies to India.
"The Bush administration's proposal undermines over 30 years of
nonproliferation policy," said John Isaacs of the Council for a
Livable World, an arms control research organization. "It's
dangerous and unprecedented."
Issacs's group is part of a new coalition made up of more than
20 prominent environmental organizations and policy think tanks --
a coalition that is currently involved in intense lobbying ...