India's Nuclear Deal With U.S. Faces Test

The Wall Street Journal
Aug 20, 2008

A U.S.-India nuclear deal faces its next hurdle this week when a multinational group that monitors sales of civilian nuclear technology takes it up, exposing the pact to close scrutiny. The members of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group face an important challenge during their special plenary session Thursday and Friday in Vienna. India and the U.S. will ask the group to allow, for the first time, the transfer of nuclear technology to a country that hasn't signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. "India is the dossier everyone cares about," said a European diplomat familiar with the matter. "And India is asking the NSG to allow an exception to its guidelines."