Bush signs nuclear deal with India

Bush signs nuclear deal with India

By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published December 18, 2006, 10:48 AM CST


WASHINGTON -- Ending three decades of "isolation" for India, President Bush today signed path-changing legislation that will enable American firms to assist in the expansion of India's civil nuclear power generation—opening significant new trade doors with an emerging Asian power once at odds with the United States.

The agreement represents a reversal of decades of discord with India, which developed its nuclear weaponry outside the bounds of international treaties and long stood as a Cold War ally of the Soviet Union.

"This will represent a major sea change in the way the world works," said Nicholas Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs who negotiated the deal with India. "There is a larger story here—the U.S. is making a strategic move to build a stronger relationship with India,'' Burns added, suggesting that after more than three decades of adversarial relations the U.S. is "bringing India in from the cold."

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really, he is. Honestly.

:eyes:

which list he's been slipped as the "enemy of the month," or fits into his "axis of evil doers." :-(

What hypocrits they are, and his supporters don't seem to even understand the word.

countries in the area of nuclear weaponry continues to be breathtaking and sends a VERY strong message to other countries to get nuclear weaponry as soon as possible and you, too, will get a wink and a nod as to how your nuclear weaponry was obtained and you will become a "good friend" of the US and off the "enemy of freedom" list.

Sounds like a fair deal to me - nuclear technology for mangos