John Carlson sent along a comment about Mark’s post,A Bridge Too Far? Syria & GOV/40. It was too important to bury in the comments, so I thought I would put it here: Syria and safeguards non-compliance – a “new paradigm”? John Carlson In a recent article (Carnegie Commentary 17 June 2011) Mark Hibbs suggests the …
Six Years Later (II)
The Bush administration was very adept at creating a sense of political inevitability behind its proposed civil nuclear cooperation agreement with India. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that, “Looking back decades from now, we will recognize this moment as the time when America invested the strategic capital needed to recast its relationship with India.” …
ENR Transfers, Pending
I just wrote a long post about not getting the Additional Protocol in the new NSG guidelines — but there is some language in a different spot that I skipped over. Hold that thought … it may not be so bad, after all.
Six Years Later (I)
On July 18, 2005, President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced their commitment to a civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement at the White House. The Bush administration pledged to take the lead in persuading the 46-member Nuclear Suppliers Group to make an exception to its restrictive rules so as to allow nuclear …
