[Mb-civic] U.S., India May Share Nuclear Technology - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>U.S., India May Share Nuclear Technology
Bush Move to Reverse Policy on Civilian Aid Needs Hill Approval

By Dana Milbank and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 19, 2005; Page A01

President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology 
with India, reversing decades of U.S. policies designed to discourage 
countries from developing nuclear weapons.

<>The agreement between Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 
which must win the approval of Congress, would create a major exception 
to the U.S. prohibition of nuclear assistance to any country that 
doesn't accept international monitoring of all of its nuclear 
facilities. India has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 
which requires such oversight, and conducted its first nuclear 
detonation in 1974.

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