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Left's turn on nuclear deal not the right course

NEW DELHI, India, March 3 -- There is something about opportunism that leads to unintended consequences. Few Left leaders would have imagined that when they set out to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal, they could in fact, become the instrument of maximizing the Indian nuclear arsenal. Initial reports that India will keep at least 6 power reactors and the prototype fast breeder reactor out of the safeguards proposed by the Indo-US nuclear deal could destabilize the subcontinental nuclear equation.

This is because Pakistan, which always views developments in India in the "worst-case-scenario mode", will assume that India is now going for a huge arsenal, rather than the credible minimum ...

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