Nuke-Shuke & all that

While the rest of the Indian News Media is engaged in debate regarding the possible next Indian President & how deep in shit she really is, there was a very interesting article on the Indo-US nuclear co-operation deal.

It was supposed to have been cleared much earlier, but negotiations had stalled over certain objections raised by the Americans (ignorant as usual, about geo politics in this part of the world). They apparently want India to declare a moratorium on testing & agree to some sort of limitation on reprocessing. I mean, here we are surrounded by hostile nations on all sides (except for Bhutan & maybe Sri Lanka & Nepal) which are headed by authoritarian, military regimes, two of them having already initiated wars against us & the Americans want us to declare a moratorium on testing! After us having already declared no-first-use!

Anyway, the cause for worry here was that some idiots in the union ministry were willing to accept whatever Uncle Sam wanted, but as this article states, there has been a change in India's stance & tactics recently which might even lead to something that is to the satisfaction of India's nuclear establishment.

Oh, & as usual, the article appears on The Telegraph .... while all that makes the headlines on the others is Mayawati/Amitabh/Rajnikanth & the like.