Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the…
A colleague of mine notes that Indian PM Manmohan Singh, in his address to the conference Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, omitted any mention of India’s voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing. Here is the key paragraph: India is…
Greetings from Delhi. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opened the conference, Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by lighting a lamp (left) and giving a speech (right). (I tried to convince George Perkovich to have a lamp lighting…
Want to know one reason that I hate the US-India nuclear deal? The House Committee on Foreign Affairs asked 40 questions about the US-India Nuclear Deal, to which the State Department provided unclassified answers that it refuses to release to…
Apparently the State Department fact sheet on the US-India 123 Agreement doesn’t mention prior consent to reprocess spent fuel, although the Indian fact sheet does. Siddharth Varadarajan explains: But it is in the U.S. and Indian descriptions of what the…
Maybe this “talking to other countries” thing isn’t such a good idea after all. After four days of talks with India over the 123 Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the White House intervenes. The result? Bottomsecretary Nick Burns gives the Indians advance…
And, oh, by the way, Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.” President Bush, quipping about the trade deal during the March 2006 press conference with Indian PM Singh annoucning additional measures in the…
I’ve been remiss in posting about the scandal linking the Indian Embassy in Washington to alleged efforts by a company called Cirrus USA to subvert US export control laws in support of India’s missile and aircraft programs. (Good coverage in…
José Maria Sert’s 1934 mural depicting the progress of humankind toward peace. Wow, the Conference on Disarmament may be moving toward a program of work. The good folks at Reaching Critical Will report that the CD could take a decision…
I am in New Delhi, attending a Financial Services Volunteer Corps dialogue among Russian, Chinese, Indian and American participants. Our meeting kicked off on Friday, which just happened to coincide with a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
