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Article: How to Regulate Nuclear Weapons; The U.S. Deal With India Could Be a Good Starting Point
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- The Washington Post
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- April 23, 2006
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Why should India, with a spotless nonproliferation record, be
denied access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology for electricity,
while China -- which helped Pakistan and Iran in their efforts to
acquire nuclear weapons -- can have it?
The inequitable structure of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) has resulted in built-in discrimination in favor of China and
against India that has made it necessary and justifiable for the
administration to conclude its civilian nuclear cooperation agreement
with New Delhi.
The treaty is based on a legalistic fiction that underpins this
discrimination. When it was concluded in 1968, only the five states
that had already tested nuclear weapons were ...