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It is impossible to weaken export controls for India without weakening them for everyone else. The 'everyone else' includes Iran, Pakistan, and even terrorists. …

Argues that the 2006 US-India nuclear pact threatens international security because weakening nuclear material export controls for India also weakens them for everyone else, including US adversaries. The Bush administration's treatment of India as an exception is seen as contradicting fundamental principles on which export controls are based, & from a Muslim standpoint, cooperation with India seems like discrimination, particularly when no good strategic reason to help India is apparent. It is argued that the Bush administration's claimed benefits of the deal do not outstrip the security costs. The implications of the deal for missile proliferation are considered, before looking at the plan's likely undermining of congressional oversight over executive power. Congress is urged to seriously reconsider any legislation that would lower standards for nuclear cooperation. D. Edelman

South Asia is now poised for a nuclear arms race. Pakistan has learned how to make enriched uranium—the material that destroyed Hiroshima— and has been buying the electronic switches and hollow steel spheres used for implosion. It has tested, successfully, an implosion bomb with a dummy core. On the Indian side, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been saying that India could make an atomic bomb "in a matter of several weeks" and "could have done so for the past ten or eleven years."

Alleged violations of the peaceful-use pledge regarding exports for nuclear uses; activities of Israel, France, India, and Norway.