IS NUCLEAR DEAL A GOOD DEAL ?

What is the pact ?

• The legislation amends Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. It lets the US make a one-time exception for India to keep its nuclear weapons without signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
• The amendment overturns a 30-year-old US ban on supplying India with nuclear fuel and technology, implemented after India's first nuclear test in 1974.
• Under the amendment, India must separate its civilian and military nuclear facilities, and submit civilian facilities to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

What do deal supporters say ?

• US President George Bush calls the deal necessary to reflect the countries' improved relations. It strengthens international security by tightening US ties to ally India, the world's biggest democracy. It also ensures some of its nuclear industry will undergo international inspection.
• New Delhi, which relies on imported oil for some 70 per cent of its energy needs, says nuclear power will help feed its rapidly expanding economy.
• France, which signed a similar deal with India in February 2006, says the move will help fight climate change and aid non-proliferation efforts.

How is Pakistan involved ?

• Pakistan sought a similar civilian technology deal with the US but was refused last in March. It is the only other confirmed nuclear power not to have signed the NPT - saying it will join after India does.
• Pakistan's own expanding nuclear program could fan the rivalry between India and Pakistan.

Benefits

• India says 14 of its 22 nuclear facilities are civilian. Critics say the pact could make bomb making at the other eight easier, as civilian nuclear fuel needs will be met by the US
• India would still be a nuclear weapons state, able to expand its nuclear arsenal and test nuclear weapons if it felt they were necessary.
• Strategically, the deal may facilitate an expansion of India’s nuclear arsenal. “Although a larger Indian arsenal could lead to wasteful and potentially dangerous arms races, its strategic implications would not be wholly bad.”

There might be few points, which makes this deal a bad deal but isn't it this points are enough to say Nuclear Deal a good deal. If someone ask's me "Which political party do I support ? ", I would say no one... but I support the nuclear deal... because I believe this is for national interest... there are peoples saying we should think proverty, inflation etc. other than Nuclear Deal... I agree with them but... think again how does it is going to change if the N-Deal is not signed...Let atleast one good thing happen...

News Flashed that opposition party was bribed to vote in favor of ruling party... This is one of the saddest thing that happend in Indian History when the whole world was watching it... But think again how does it effects us any way we believe that all politicians are corrupt... even if they did this, then I think they did it for national interest not for saving their "KURSI" because if they wanted to save the "KURSI", all they need to do was to cancel the N-Deal...