Summary
The deal struck last week by President Bush and his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, effectively recognizes reality: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is dead.
The demise of that 1968 accord was, of course, not caused by the U.S.-India agreement to provide American nuclear power technology to a country that had become a nuclear weapons state despite the NPT's effort to prevent such developments. India never signed the treaty and was, therefore, not bound by its nonproliferation restrictions.See the full content of this document
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A Farewell to Arms Control
Rather, the NPT was killed by the cynical actions of North Korea and Iran, two states that did sign it - and then proceeded systematically, if covertly, to violate their promises to remain non- nuclear states, in exchange for access to reactors and technology for pe...
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