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US Conference of Mayors Adopts Resolution for Elimination Nuclear Weapons by 2020

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Jackie Cabasso at 2020visioncampaign.org:

"On June 23, 2008, the US Conference of Mayors (USCM), at its 76th annual meeting in Miami, Florida, unanimously adopted a far-reaching resolution entitled "Support for the Elimination of All Nuclear Weapons by the Year 2020." See full text below
The resolution, submitted by Mayors for Peace Vice-President Donald Plusquellic (Akron, Ohio) and 9 co-sponsors, recommends that the U.S. government "urgently consider" an agreement - the "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol" - as a means of "fulfilling the promise of the NPT by the year 2020, thereby meeting the obligation found by the International Court of Justice in 1996 to 'conclude negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.'" The resolution also encourages USCM members to participate in the delegation and activities being organized by Mayors for Peace at the third NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee Meeting in New York in May 2009, and to sign the Cities Appeal being circulated in support of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol and to encourage other elected officials in their cities to do likewise....."

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Members of the European Parliament launch support for total ban of nuclear weapons

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:00 GMT

2020VisionCampaign.org:

"Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign co-organizes the launch of a "Parliamentary endorsement of the Nuclear Weapons Convention" (NWC) during an International Conference in the European Parliament in Brussels where several of its members are scheduled to speak. A cross-party group of 69 members of the European Parliament from 19 EU member states have signed the statement in support of the NWC. Amongst the first endorsers we find Ms. Frieda Brepoels and Mr. Raymond Langendries (PPE-DE, Belgium). Mr. Langendries is also a Mayor of Tubize and member of Mayors for Peace.

The significant and growing political support of members of the EP mark the 40th anniversary of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), and the unfulfilled promise of the official Nuclear Weapon States to move towards total elimination of their nuclear arsenals...."

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Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:40:00 GMT

Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson at timesonline.co.uk:

"During the Cold War nuclear weapons had the perverse effect of making the world a relatively stable place. That is no longer the case. Instead, the world is at the brink of a new and dangerous phase - one that combines widespread proliferation with extremism and geopolitical tension...."

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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Turns 40 Today

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:40:00 GMT

Tad Daley at huffingtonpost.com:

"Try an experiment today.

Go into a Starbucks (or better yet, some locally owned alternative), and see if you can chat with 100 people waiting in line. There are always people waiting in line at these places. Tell them that forty years ago today, on July 1, 1968, in Washington, London, and Moscow, world leaders signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the NPT.

Then ask them to tell you what it says...."

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Iran _Seriously_Considering_ New Nuclear Offer

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers at truthout.org:

"United Nations - Iran's senior diplomat said Tuesday that Tehran was seriously considering a new offer from six world powers to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program, and he praised the package as "constructive."..."

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The Sunflower - eNewsletter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Issue 132 - July 2008

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:20:00 GMT

the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation:

"The Sunflower - Issue 132 - July 2008

Perspectives

The Non-Proliferation Treaty Turns Forty by David Krieger

Debating Article VI by David Krieger

A Powerful Peace by Jonathan Schell

No Nuclear Weapons: An Interview with George Shultz by Sarah van Gelder

US Nuclear Policy

The US-India Deal: Why It Will Fail

Nuclear Proliferation

Mofaz Declares Attack on Iran "Unavoidable"

New International Disarmament Group Announced

North Korea on the Right Track

Nuclear Insanity

National (In) Security: Air Force Reports on Inadequate Security of US Nuclear Arsenal

British Warheads Could Accidentally Explode

Resources

2008 Global Peace Index

The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World

America in Peril

Foundation Activities

NAPF Appeal Endorsed by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash

Think Outside the Bomb in Boston: August 14-17

L.A.-Area Nuclear Disarmament Coalition Conference

Quotes

..."

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US-India Nuclear Agreement - Still a Bad Deal: Global Network of NGOs Urge International Community to Oppose

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:20:00 GMT

The US-India Deal Working Group of Abolition 2000:

"Media Release
July 8, 2008

US-India Nuclear Agreement - Still a Bad Deal:
Global Network of NGOs Urge International Community to Oppose

The US-India Deal Working Group of Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000 organizations in more than 90 countries working for a global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons, says that pressure to rush a decision on the US-India Nuclear Agreement must be resisted.

The organizations are calling upon key governments "to play an active role in supporting measures that would ensure this controversial proposal does not: further undermine the nuclear safeguards system and efforts to prevent the proliferation of technologies that may be used to produce nuclear bomb material," or "in any way contribute to the expansion of India's nuclear arsenal."...."

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Us-India Nuclear Deal -- Left-wing parties storm out of Indian coalition

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

NEW DELHI (AFP):

"NEW DELHI (AFP) - A bloc of Indian left-wing and communist parties announced Tuesday they were pulling out of the country's coalition government in protest against a nuclear energy deal with the United States...."

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A New Approach to Missile Defense in Europe

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:20:00 GMT

Steven Pifer, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe - The Brookings Institution:

"July 02, 2008 - The Bush administration sees missile defense as a central part of its legacy and thus has pressed aggressively to secure agreement to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe. This has created tensions with U.S. allies and could deal another blow to relations with Moscow. Slowing the process offers a smarter way to manage the issue.

The Bush administration came to office determined to make things happen on missile defense. It did, quickly withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and deploying a handful of missile interceptors in Alaska and California to counter North Korea. It then announced plans to place a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic plus interceptors in Poland to protect against an anticipated Iranian missile threat.

While the Czechs have agreed to host the radar, talks with the Poles have bogged down, and Washington reportedly has explored basing the interceptors in Lithuania. Warsaw wants some expensive help in upgrading air defenses. The Poles are dragging their feet in part because they do not know what the next U.S. administration will do. They understandably do not want to be left holding the bag - having created a domestic political row and a new irritant in their relations with Moscow - if the new administration slows or cancels the program.

The next administration will have reasons to reexamine the wisdom of the missile defense plans...."

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India's Temples Go Green

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT

MADHUR SINGH at time.com:

"The Tirumala temple, in the south Indian city of Tirupathi, is one of Hinduism's holiest shrines. Over 5,000 pilgrims a day visit this city of seven hills, filling Tirumala's coffers with donations and making it India's richest temple. But since 2002, Tirumala has also been generating revenue from a less likely source: carbon credits. For decades, the temple's community kitchen has fed nearly 15,000 people, cooking 30,000 meals a day. Five years ago, Tirumala adopted solar cooking technology, allowing it to dramatically cut down on the amount of diesel fuel it uses. The temple now sells the emission reduction credits it earns to a Swiss green-technology investor, Good Energies Inc.

Like Tirumala, dozens of holy places across India are moving quietly towards green energy. Muni Seva Ashram, in Gujarat, which combines spiritual practice with social activism, is working to make its premises entirely green by using solar, wind and biogas energy. A residential school for 400 students is already running exclusively on green energy. Starting this year, the ashram will also sell three million carbon credits. A similar movement is afoot at the revered Sai Baba Temple in Shirdi, Maharashtra. "Our aim is to avoid pollution in every way," says Raghunath Aher, the temple's chief engineer. "A holy place should be pure and completely in harmony with nature."...."

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WE NEED MORE RESEARCH -- Is the EU Turning its Back on Biofuels?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:40:00 GMT

Charles Hawleyn the Spiegel Online International:

"The storm of critique against biofuels may finally be having some effect. Even as the European Commission remains true to its goal of increasing the use of biofuels, others aren't so sure. The European Parliament is trying to put on the brakes...."

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Russia says will use military means if U.S. deploys shield

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Guy Faulconbridge at reuters.com:

"...."If the real deployment of an American strategic missile defence shield begins close to our borders, then we will be forced to react not with diplomatic methods, but with military-technical methods," the Foreign Ministry said...."

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Warning over French uranium leak

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT

BBC NEWS:

"Waste containing unenriched uranium has leaked into two rivers from a nuclear plant in southern France...."

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German Leaks Raise More Nuclear Fears

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:10:00 GMT

Julio Godoy for IPS-Inter Press Service:

" BERLIN, Jul 8 (IPS) - Confirmation that radioactive brine has been leaking for two decades from a German underground deposit for nuclear waste is yet another blow to the idea that nuclear power can safely increase electricity generation and simultaneously reduce emissions...."

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FRENCH NUCLEAR LEAK - Critics Worry as Authorities Ban Water Use

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Josh Ward in the Spiegel Online International:

"While safety agencies in France are playing down the risk to public health from Tuesday's uranium leak at the Tricastin nuclear plant, water-usage bans have worried skeptical residents and environmental organizations.

Following Tuesday's accidental leak of over 30,000 liters (7,925 gallons) of a solution containing uranium in southern France, nuclear safety agencies are minimizing the possible danger. But emergency bans put on water use in the area by local authorities have worried residents and environmental organizations at a time when much of Europe is re-embracing nuclear power as way to slow global warming...."

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INDIA/US: Deceptions Surface in Nuclear Deal

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Praful Bidwai at IPS-Inter Press Service:

"NEW DELHI, Jul 11 (IPS) - The Indian government has taken a major step towards completing its controversial nuclear cooperation deal with the United States by moving the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for approving an inspections (safeguards) agreement it signed last year with the IAEA secretariat pertaining to civilian nuclear reactors.

The news has been greeted by the domestic political opposition with howls of protest and accusations of deception and a violation of the commitment the Manmohan Singh government made just a few days ago to seek a vote of confidence from Parliament before approaching the IAEA Board of Governors.

Meanwhile, the text of the safeguards agreement, which the government claims is classified and confidential, has been leaked. About 10 hours after it was posted on several websites by arms control groups on Wednesday night, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs made it public yesterday -- only to draw acerbic criticism of its contents...."

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On the US-India Nuclear Deal - Parsing the India-specific safeguards agreement news analysis

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Siddharth Varadarajan at The Hindu:

" The draft text negotiated with the IAEA places the country mid-way between nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states in terms of its rights and obligations.

By going about its business of approaching the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for approval of India's safeguards agreement with stealth and even subterfuge, the United Progressive Alliance government has scored a political own-goal which is likely to detract from the debate over the contents of the safeguards text itself.

This is unfortunate because the 23-page document, negotiated over five rounds of meetings between India and the IAEA Secretariat, contains much that is worthy of comment and analysis. The bulk of the technical aspects of the document - especially on safeguards procedures - with one or two important exceptions is virtually a carbon copy of the provisions found in the Agency's template document for site-specific safeguards in a non-nuclear weapon state (Infcirc 66/Rev.2). But it is in the crucial provisions dealing with (1) what is to be safeguarded and for how long, and (2) the purpose and objective of the safeguards agreement and the conditions under which it is operative, that the draft takes on an "India-specific" character that is radically different from the ones applicable to NNWSs...."

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Negotiating India's Next Nuclear Explosion

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

HENRY SOKOLSKI IN TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA:

"...All of which raises the question, if this "peaceful" nuclear deal isn't to pump up U.S. reactor sales, just what is it about? One could argue that India could use more foreign uranium. It's recently run so low on domestic fuel that it's had to reduce the power production level of its civilian reactors significantly. It also needs foreign uranium because its own uranium production has remained relatively flat, while its civilian and military requirements have risen.

This is where the trouble begins. It turns out that fueling India's civilian reactors with foreign fuel is not all that peaceful. As K. Subrahmanyam, former head of India's National Security Advisory board noted, "Given India's uranium ore crunch . . . it is to India's advantage to categorize as many power reactors as possible as civilian ones to be refueled by imported uranium and conserve our native uranium fuel for weapons grade plutonium production."....

Some Comment by Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance, on these US Foreign Politics issues:

Ah, what the hell !

let us rip up the NPT, throw the IAEA and the NSG in the dustbin. It would help us to overcome our economical crisis, so let us just do it. It would enable us to start selling Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Fuel to whoever we would like. And what do we care about Nuclear Weapons any way and in who hands they are or end up. We have enough Nuclear Weapons to bomb all of them to pieces....
What do I hear you say ? If I would care about the future of my children ? They would be save would they not - we do not live in the USA for nothing ?

... Ah, what the hell, we live now don't we ?..."

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43 nations to seek Middle East free of WMDs

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:30:00 GMT

The Associated Press:

"PARIS (AP) - More than 40 nations, including Israel and Arab states, agreed Sunday to work for a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East...."

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Kenya court halts $370m sugar, biofuels project

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Daniel Wallis at Reuters AlertNet:

"NAIROBI, July 13 (Reuters) - A Kenyan court has temporarily halted a $370 million sugar and biofuels project in a coastal wetland that conservation groups warned would threaten wildlife and local livelihoods....

Comment Ak Malten:

People beginning to see the danger of growing Bio-ethanol crops and find court recognition in their fight against it. An alternative could be bio fuel made by algae, see: http://www.ecoversity.org/case_focus/algaefuel/algaefuel.html "

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Windmills coming around again in the Netherlands

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

John Tagliabue at iht.com:

"AMSTERDAM: The Dutch are building windmills again. Up and down the coast, out from port cities like this one, you can see them: white and tall and slender as pencils, their three slim blades turning lazily in the North Sea breeze.

These ones generate electricity, of course, rather than grinding grain. The government has already built one enormous farm of mills far off the coast, where they are inoffensive to tourists, and plans a second. Yet it is also building, and rebuilding, mills like the squat, homely ones that have seemingly always dotted the Dutch countryside and reflect as much the nature of the country as do tulips or Gouda cheese...."

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Iran and U.S. Signaling Chance of Deal

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:10:00 GMT

Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer:

"President Bush's decision to shift policy and send a senior U.S. envoy to nuclear talks with Iran this weekend was made after increasing signs that Iran was open to possible negotiations and that international sanctions were having an impact on the Islamic republic, U.S. officials said yesterday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed for the move in a meeting on Monday of Bush's top aides, and Bush's support suggests he increasingly is determined to put aside a possible military strike in an effort to reach a deal to end Iran's nuclear program in his final six months in office...."

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US plans to station diplomats in Iran for first time since 1979

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian:

"The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush.

The Guardian has learned that an announcement will be made in the next month to establish a US interests section - a halfway house to setting up a full embassy. The move will see US diplomats stationed in the country.

The news of the shift by Bush who has pursued a hawkish approach to Iran throughout his tenure comes at a critical time in US-Iranian relations. After weeks that have seen tensions rise with Israel conducting war games and Tehran carrying out long-range missile tests, a thaw appears to be under way...."

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An Uncomfortable Conversation about Nukes

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Conn Hallinan at fpif.org:

"Why are Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons? Keep in mind, these four people are not just major defense hawks. People like Kissinger and Nunn helped push through the single most dangerous and destabilizing innovation in nuclear weaponry, the arming of missiles with multiple warheads. All four have supported every conflict the United States has engaged in since World War II, all have enthusiastically supported nuclear weapons, and none has suddenly gone kumbaya on us.

But all four have concluded that nuclear weapons no longer serve the interests of the great powers. Why the change of mind? The answer has some disquieting aspects.

Proliferation Consideration...."

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Peter Jones . Going non-nuclear

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Peter Jones at canada.com:

"Since the dawn of the nuclear age, all countries have been officially committed to eliminating these weapons. Today, some of the most influential politicians and officials of the nuclear era are talking seriously about actually doing it...."

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World powers test Iran's will to end nuclear row

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Mark John at reuters.com:

"GENEVA (Reuters) - Major world powers will sound out Iran's readiness to negotiate an end to the long dispute over its nuclear program on Saturday.

The unprecedented participation of a senior U.S. official in the one-day meeting in Geneva, together with Iranian comments playing down the likelihood of an attack by the United States and Israel, have raised hopes of progress...."

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INDIA/US: Nuclear Deal Headed for Fiasco

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Praful Bidwai at IPS:

"NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (IPS) - As the tortuous negotiations for the United States-India nuclear deal enters its final stage, it becomes clear that India seriously underestimated the discomfort and opposition the agreement would arouse in many countries because of the special privileges granted to India, largely on New Delhi's terms...."

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ENERGY: Accidents Make N-Questions Bigger

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Julio Godoy at IPS:

"PARIS, Jul 31 (IPS) - The recent proliferation of accidents at nuclear power plants in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe has made calls for greater reliance on nuclear energy questionable, experts say...."

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POLITICS-US: Success of Attack on Irans Nuclear Programme Doubtful

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Jim Lobe at IPS:

"WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (IPS) - A military attack on Iran's major nuclear facilities by the United States or Israel would likely result only in a delay -- and not a particularly significant one at that -- in Tehran's ability to produce the fuel necessary to build a nuclear weapon, according to a report released here Friday by an influential think tank on nuclear proliferation issues...."

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North Korea says it has stopped disabling main nuclear complex

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Choe Sang-Hun at IHT:

"SEOUL: North Korea said Tuesday that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities that the country has used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- The American dilemma at the NSG

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu:

"....In the face of evidence suggesting the underselling of India's case at the Nuclear Suppliers Group last week, it is worth asking why the United States invested three years of political capital in a deal only to see it brought to the edge of a precipice where the smallest of nonproliferation 'conditions' is likely to knock it over. The answer lies in the contradictory pursuit of strategic and tactical gains that lies at the heart of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal...."

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ENERGY: Only Nuclear Dreams Mushrooming

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Julio Godoy at IPS:

"PARIS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The proposal by the Paris-based International Energy Agency for more than 1,400 nuclear power plants to be built over the next 40 years is unfeasible, environmental activists say....

....The IEA proposal was received with downright criticism. German minister for the environment Sigmar Gabriel called the IEA proposal "a rampage". Some environmental activists have urged the OECD to stop financing the agency as long as it is not able to perform a "responsible job".

"You cannot handle the problem of the future of energy in a more irresponsible way than the IEA has done with its proposal," Gabriel told German media. Gabriel pointed out that there is just not enough uranium to fuel the proposed new 1,400 nuclear power plants.

"The only other way to fuel the plants is to enrich plutonium, which in turn is the best way to nourish the proliferation of nuclear weapons," Gabriel said. "That situation would be a nightmare worse than any of our maddest dreams of the Cold War." ...."

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India-US nuclear deal undone? - The Manmohan Agenda in crisis

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Praful Bidwai, Column in The Daily Star:

"A deal undone?

JUST as it seemed headed for completion, the India-United States nuclear deal has run into big trouble. Indian officials had thought the US-drafted motion to get a waiver for India from the Nuclear Suppliers' Group's nuclear trade rules would "sail through."

Getting consensus on it would be as smooth as "a knife going through butter." A handful of dissenting member-states would express reservations. Soon thereafter, Germany, the NSG chair, would announce a "consensus."

The US Congress would ratify the deal by September. India would have its Nuclear Nirvana.

Yet, more than 20 of the NSG's 45 members expressed reservations...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- India sees red as China voices n-deal concerns

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:10:00 GMT

Indrani Bagchi,TNN, in The Times of India:

"NEW DELHI: The odds are lengthening on the Indian nuclear deal as the opposition in the Nuclear Suppliers' Group refuses to die down and India sticks to its "red lines" on refusing the amendments. In a clear sign of the growing challenge, China has indicated to the NSG that it would make its "concerns" regarding the Indian nuclear deal clear at the next meeting. As a precursor, China's top government mouthpiece, People's Daily , trashed the deal on Monday, saying it was a "blow to the international non-proliferation regime"...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- Appeal from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:30:00 GMT

Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo:

"Press Release
(3 September 2008)

Appeal from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Oppose the US-India Nuclear Agreement.

Groups representing survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Hibakusha) today sent letters of support to six governments which have been blocking a proposal to exempt India from international nuclear trade rules...."

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India's Nuclear Testing in 1998 -- Chirac surprised the Indians: "He said, 'France would fully understand if India conducted nuclear tests. We will be with you,' "

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:40:00 GMT

Rama Lakshmi article at washingtonpost.com - "A Secondary Role for U.S. in India's Nuclear Future"

"....NEW DELHI -- Four months before India shocked the world by conducting underground nuclear tests in 1998, French President Jacques Chirac visited India, bringing along 100 business leaders and meeting with Indian p olicymakers and industrialists.

At one meeting, Chirac surprised the Indians: "He said, 'France would fully understand if India conducted nuclear tests. We will be with you,' " recalled Tarun Das, chief mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industry, a business lobby that received the French delegates...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- In Secret Letter, Tough U.S. Line on India Nuclear Deal

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer:

"The United States will not sell sensitive nuclear technologies to India and would immediately terminate nuclear trade if New Delhi conducted a nuclear test, the Bush administration told Congress in correspondence that has remained secret for nine months...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- India's 'Official' Left and a journalist close to them react to the US secret letter on India-US deal

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:30:00 GMT

Declaration by the Communist Party of India + Siddharth Varadarajan:

"1. The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

Manmohan Singh Government Stands Exposed....

2. Siddharth Varadarajan

A stake has been driven through the nuclear deal

An initial reaction to the latest evidence of American bad faith...."

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US India Nuclear Deal -- Six NSG members hold out against clean waiver for India

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:50:00 GMT

Mehru Jaffer, IANS:

"Vienna, Sep 1 (IANS): Six countries in the Nuclear Suppliers' Group have remained opposed to a "clean waiver" to India ahead of its meeting here this week and some of them have said they were under pressure to reach a "constructive conclusion" to allow global nuclear commerce with New Delhi...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- In India, Outcry Over U.S. Letter

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Foreign Service:

"NEW DELHI, Sept. 3 -- A day after a secret letter from the U.S. State Department to Congress about the controversial nuclear energy deal with India was made public, Indian opposition figures cried foul, accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of willfully misleading the nation about restrictive aspects of the deal.

The letter contradicts a commitment that Singh made to Parliament in August 2007, the critics said. He had told legislators that "the agreement does not in any way affect India's right to undertake future nuclear tests, if it is necessary."...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- NSG meets amidst rumblings of uncertainty

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:30:00 GMT

Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu:

"Vienna: The Nuclear Suppliers Group is meeting again here on Thursday to review a fresh American proposal to exempt India from the 45-nation cartel's requirement of full-scope safeguards as a condition for nuclear exports.

Full-scope safeguards means each and every nuclear facility in a country must be placed under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, something India refuses to do since it has a nuclear weapons programme

An earlier United States proposal was shot down at a special plenary of the NSG in Vienna on August 21 and 22, with many countries demanding the imposition of stricter conditions on India. The new draft, which was finalized by the U.S. in consultation with India on Friday night and made available to NSG members the next day, was meant to reflect those demands but several countries have told The Hindu the fresh provisions are inadequate...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- U.S. Presses for India Deal While Atomic Group Stays Deadlocked

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Tirone at Bloomberg:

"...."The revised U.S. proposal does not incorporate any meaningful adjustments or concessions and is essentially the same as the earlier draft proposal," Arms Control Association Director Daryl Kimball said. The Washington-based body posted a copy of the revised two-page proposal on its Web site late yesterday....

....Divisions at the Suppliers Group arose after the U.S. submitted a draft exemption that is weaker than a December 2006 law passed by the U.S. Congress permitting an agreement. The U.S. proposal now leaves open the option for India to conduct nuclear tests...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- U.S. Letter Puts India's Premier On Defensive Over Nuclear Deal

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:10:00 GMT

Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Foreign Service:

"NEW DELHI, Sept. 4 -- As international negotiators met in Vienna to decide the fate of the contentious nuclear energy agreement between India and the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government found itself facing a revived political battle at home over the deal because of the release of a secret letter in Washington...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- NSG stuck on the "testing" clause

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:20:00 GMT

Indrani Bagchi,TNN:

" VIENNA: The Nuclear Suppliers Group is beginning to tire under the relentless pressure to take a decision on the N-deal. As the 45-country nuclear cartel sat down this morning to consider the new US draft text for the India waiver, the debate had narrowed down to the infamous "testing" clause...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- If N-deal against India's interest, we'll walk out: Kakodkar

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:30:00 GMT

The Indian Express:

"New Delhi, September 4:: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar appeared to suggest that India would walk out of the nuclear deal with the US if it goes against its interest...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- Comment from Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Jayantha Dhanapala, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General (1998-2003) and President of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference:

"Brutal and unconscionable pressure has been exerted on the few countries who opposed the U.S. draft waiver for India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting in Vienna, which is to be reconvened on Saturday 6th September morning in Vienna.

I appeal to these countries and to all others in the NSG to remain faithful to the principles of the NPT in the face of nuclear weapons states interests and the commercial profit motives of nuclear technology and materials exporters.

A gaping hole is being created in the NPT through which Israel and Pakistan will drive through unless the U.S. Congress or a new U.S. Administration revise the proposed deal to help ensure the survival of the NPT beyond 2010. "

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- Max Americana: US shows the way at NSG

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN in the Times of India:

"...."For the first time in my experience of international diplomatic negotiations, a consensus decision was followed by complete silence in the room. No clapping, nothing," one European diplomat complained to Reuters. "It showed a lot of us felt pressured to some extent into a decision by the Americans and few were totally satisfied."...."

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US-India Nuclear Deal -- A warning for anyone who celebrates the US-India Nuclear Deal - a website update

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:10:00 GMT

Ak Malten, Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance:

"I congratulate the US and India in shooting down the NPT and would like to ask them in a couple of months or years, if they believe they got value for their money.

The bulling and armtwisting of the six states, opposing the US-India Nuclear Deal in favore of Non-Proliferation at the NSG, by the US and India was not a nice thing to see happening.

These states gave way to the US and India after tremendous pressure was put upon them in the end. Its result is the NPT laying mortally wounded in the street and an armageddon is more likely to happen.

My reaction is the following update of my website ment as a warning for anyone who celebrates the US-India Nuclear Deal.

Here is a glims of what a nuclear war will look like. Only the Nuclear Weapons deployed by the Nuclear Weapon States today are much more powerful then the one dropped at Hiroshima. And here is what it looked like - Hell on earth already then...

http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten/index.html#2

Ak

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