"This seems to me an incredibly hasty, cavalier jettisoning of the rules," said Henry Sokolski, a Republican who heads the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. "Already, the North Koreans are lecturing us about double standards. And they're not entirely wrong."
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who negotiated the nuclear trade agreement with India, says engagement beats isolation for advancing U.S. nonproliferation goals. India has promised to separate its civilian and military nuclear programs and open the civilian ones to international inspections. It has also expressed interest in joining the U.S.-led effort to intercept trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, known as the Proliferation Security Initiative.
"We believe it is in the international community's interest that New Delhi's isolation be brought to an end," Burns said in an October speech before the Asia Society.
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Nuclear Issue To Test India-U.S. Friendship
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India and Pakistan conducted nuclear weapons tests in 1998. They refuse to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. They operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, have active nuclear weapons programs, and are subject to international restrictions on nuclear trade (to which Canada is a party). Despite these facts, Canada has continued to allow nuclear technical exchanges with India and Pakistan, and has spearheaded a campaign with them to allow carbon credits for nuclear power under the CDM, thus making the Kyoto Protocol a driver for nuclear weapons proliferation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/atmosphere-energy/nuclear-free/reactors/nuclear-and-clim-chg-6-01.html">http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/atmosphere-energy/nuclear-free/reactors/nuclear-and-clim-chg-6-01.html</a>
Canada also calls these countries friends. Canada also calls the US a friend even though this country was the only one to use these devices against people. Canada is allowing all to be in the same basket. It's difficult to allow one and not the other. As a peacemaker, Canada is required to refuse this technology to any one. The Arms race was supposidly ended. Obviously no one can be trusted..
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What a crock.<br />
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"Canada continues to promote peaceful nuclear technology exemplified by the CANDU reactor. Unlike most designs, the CANDU does not require enriched fuel, and in theory is therefore much less likely to lead to the development of weaponized fissile fuel. For this reason, CANDU has been sold to countries where there is a threat of nuclear proliferation, on the basis that the construction of an enrichment facility would be noticed and clearly being used for weapons only."<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction</a><br />
<p>---<br>"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill<br />
Canada had sworn to be Nuclear free yet a world leader in the development and plutonium extraction. It's a commodity that is bought and sold. "Trust" is not what it use to be and only "trust" is what Canada relies on. It's time Canada stops the market.