India-U.S. Nuclear Accord a Bad Deal, Arms Group Tells Congress

Bloomberg
Sep 18, 2008

The nuclear energy accord between the U.S. and India is a ``bad deal'' that may damage efforts against proliferation and Congress must reject it unless more safeguards are introduced, arms control advocates said. India continues to produce fissile material and the agreement may indirectly assist the country's nuclear weapons program, academics, former diplomats and disarmament organizations wrote to members of Congress yesterday. Lawmakers must ``resist overtures toward a vote without carefully considering the far-reaching nuclear nonproliferation and security implications'' of the agreement and address its ``numerous flaws and ambiguities,'' they said in a letter organized by the Washington-based Arms Control Association.