Nuclear supply to india is gonna be a sh*t

Mic Mathi

No US has a responsibility to prevent the spreading of nuclear technology.

Red Stateler

No single technology has prevented more war than nuclear bombs.

Rob Graham

And the rest including Pakistan don't? India already has nuclear technology (and weapons, as does Pakistan), it's not like they are getting anything new. Did it occur to you that by providing the fuel under inspection agreements, the US actually has a better chance of preventing misuse than if they forced India to go somewhere else?

Mic Mathi

Yes, but if India violates the agreement then what will do? Can US challenge the India like Iran or Afghanistan?

Rob Graham

We can certainly stop supplying. I would be far more worried if it were Pakistan we were providing reactor fuel to. They have alread demonstrated that they cannot be trusted not to spread the technology.

Rob Graham

MAD sucks, but it works.

Tim Craig

Red Stateler wrote:

No single technology has prevented more war than nuclear bombs.

It's only prevented the nuclear powers from waging nuclear war. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been plenty of conventional war to go around.

Mongkut to a Christian missionary friend: "What you teach us to do is admirable, but what you teach us to believe is foolish".

Ed Gadziemski

Don't torture Red. You know facts make his stomach hurt.

Tim Craig

Ed Gadziemski wrote:

Don't torture Red. You know facts make his stomach hurt.

Let him reap what he sows! :cool:

Mongkut to a Christian missionary friend: "What you teach us to do is admirable, but what you teach us to believe is foolish".

Christian Graus

Why ? Does it not occur to you that if India is going to get this stuff anyhow, that being the supplier gives the US more ability to watch what's done with it ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Red Stateler

Tim Craig wrote:

It's only prevented the nuclear powers from waging nuclear war. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been plenty of conventional war to go around.

Exactly. No two nuclear powers have ever gone to war with one another.

Lost User

Red Stateler wrote:

Exactly. No two nuclear powers have ever gone to war with one another.

That is because YHVH is protecting His chosen people until the end days.

Lost User

He should be renamed Gray Stateler

cp9876

It's possible that the nuclear deterrent is a bit last century. It has worked well for, shall we say, conventional governments that fear self destruction. But what if the power was to fall into the hands of a commander-in-chief who had the same mentality and beliefs as a suicide bomber? I should add that I pose this as a hypothetical question, I have no concerns along these lines from the current nuclear powers, including India - the world's largest democracy.

Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

Tim Craig

cp9876 wrote:

I have no concerns along these lines from the current nuclear powers

Pakistan doesn't bother you? Or North Korea although they've (supposedly) tabled their program until the next time they need to blackmail the west for goods or services?

Mongkut to a Christian missionary friend: "What you teach us to do is admirable, but what you teach us to believe is foolish".

cp9876

Many of the nuclear powers worry me (and the ones you mention are high on the list) - but not particularly "along these lines".

Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

Mic Mathi wrote:

But this is a real threat against Pakistan and China.

Excellent. Let India follow the safe policy of "Open Doors and Secure Borders" just like DHS (http://www.dhs.gov/[^])

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