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Questions Remain on India-U.S. Nuclear Deal
Some U.S. lawmakers have begun raising questions about the nonproliferation implications of an effort by U.S. President Bush to establish nuclear energy cooperation with India, Reuters reported yesterday (see GSN, July 26). “The [Bush] administration has no clear plan” on implementing the agreement and “no good answers” regarding its potential effect on international security, said a Republican who attended a recent briefing for congressional staff. Questions about long it would take for India to separate its civilian and military nuclear programs and to place the civilian component under international monitoring have yet to be answered, administration officials have conceded. Some nonproliferation experts have expressed concern that Washington could act hastily, before New Delhi follows through on nonproliferation promises. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns plans to visit India next month to address such issues, a senior official told Reuters. The administration will probably wait at least a month or two to propose legislation on the plan, pending some Indian action on new nonproliferation commitments. “It will take months for the Indians to begin (to meet) some of their commitments and to complete others,” the official said. “The Indians know we’re going to wait and see all this occur” (Carol Giacomo, Reuters/Yahoo!News, Aug. 1).
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