Delayed, perhaps, but not quite dead
The Democrats’ resounding victory in Congress makes the task of tying up the India-U.S. nuclear agreement’s loose ends more difficult but the underlying strategic rationale for the deal from the … Continue reading
When Bob Gates came calling
President Bush’s nominee for Secretary of Defence had sought to defuse India-Pakistan tensions in 1990. But was there really a nuclear danger, as Seymour Hersh claimed? 10 November 2006The Hindu … Continue reading
For India, North Korea’s test poses key challenge
Reconfiguring the nuclear order is no longer a simple matter. For the simple reason that there is no longer any nuclear order.11 October 2006The Hindu For India, North Korea’s test … Continue reading
India condemns North Korean test
Though India itself, as a non-signatory to the Nonproliferation Treaty, tested nuclear weapons in 1998 and North Korea is no longer a state party to the NPT, New Delhi claims … Continue reading
Iran: Little chance of nuclear compromise
Tehran will respond to the pending European package but is unlikely to suspend enrichment under pressure. What the world must realise is sanctions will take us further from and not … Continue reading
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s red lines
At the end of a vigorous debate on the implementation of the nuclear deal with the United States in the Rajya Sabha, India’s upper house of Parliament, on Augsut 17, … Continue reading
‘Set ground rules on nuclear deal’ , say scientists
India’s senior-most nuclear scientists have written to Members of Parliament warning that the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal infringes on indigenous research and development, and that the country should guard against accepting … Continue reading
"We are still interested in dialogue based on justness and fairness"
Those who think only about bombs, war, and attacking others are the root cause of everything that is wrong in the world, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells The Hindu in … Continue reading
Ahmadinejad interview: If pressure continues, Iran can change mind on NPT
“The United States and its European allies are really not looking for a dialogue”, Iran’s President tells The Hindu. 10 August 2006The Hindu If pressure continues, Iran can change mind … Continue reading
"For the U.S., the nuclear issue of Iran is just an excuse"
As Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani is Iran’s top nuclear negotiator. In an interview with The Hindu in Tehran on Saturday, he discussed Iran’s nuclear programme, … Continue reading
Larijani interview: Iran wants nuclear talks, but not at gunpoint
Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator says his country has no problem with India’s nuclear deal, only with U.S. ‘double standards’. 6 August 2006The Hindu Iran wants nuclear talks, but not at … Continue reading
Nuclear Deal: Questions arise on reprocessing restrictions
Spent fuel treatment will require separate U.S. consent. And Congress will not waive Section 129 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, as the Bush administration had promised India in March. … Continue reading
"Safeguards, end to U.S. restrictions must be interlocking actions"
M.R. Srinivasan, member of the Atomic Energy Commission, spells out his worries about new conditions being imposed on India by the U.S. Congress in its draft law authorising the resumption … Continue reading
The nuclear deal and ‘minimum deterrence’
The Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement will raise the financial and political costs of the Indian nuclear weapons programme but it does not impose a legal bar on the production of fissile … Continue reading
Siddharth Varadarajan 