Thanks for the link man.
Every nation needs nuclear energy. Not deal. Deal is another thing altogether. The term deal comes in terms of business affair. People of other nations are not idiots, they understand the importance of nuclear energy very well. Even a small nation like North Korea understands it and has desperately reopened her nuke project though in defence purposes.
You said US lifted the age-old ban for her own interests. Can you explain what interests US would have in dealing with the deal? Are those purposes will appear favorable for the huge Indian market potential or they are just favorable for the US citizens?
The powerful US Chamber of Commerce has come out in strong support of the India-US civil nuclear deal, saying a modest share of the potential $150 billion business could support 250,000 high-tech American jobs.
The US Governments motives are several-fold.
1. After having invaded Iraq on a false excuse, this government is now deep in a quagmire. After spending one trillion dollarsthis is Barack Obamas estimate, which is less than half of some non-official estimateand losing four thousand American lives, the US does not as yet know how to wriggle out of this situation. Not only is resentment growing in the USA but some European allies also are distancing themselves from US moves. If India, once the leader of the global non-aligned movement, could be pulled away from the G-77 countries (and also from its friendly ties with Russia) and drawn into the US orbit, it would be a great gain for the US. Administration, overshadowing all losses. For the last six decades the US Power Elite had been longing for this. The US has a habit of propping up certain forces in other countries to gain some advantage and creating conflict situations. It hopes to use naïve Indian personnel to pull the chestnut out of the fire for the US.
2. Export of armaments on a huge scale to India and becoming its arms supplier number one has been the USAs objective. Now its soaring external debts have greatly whetted this appetite. The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has openly said that commerce with India in military hardware is priority number one in the Pentagons thinking.
3. For the last thirty years, the US nuclear reactor industry has remained starved of orders. After the Three-Mile Islands nuclear mishap, the American people have not allowed any reactor to be set up. As many as 37 earlier orders had also to be cancelled due to peoples resistance. The Chernobyl meltdown in Ukraine in 1986 has accentuated this sprit of resistance. But a State which wants to keep piling its nuclear arsenal needs to maintain the nuclear reactor industry. The burden has become unbearable even for the richest nations public treasury. Since Indias political class, led by the countrys nuclear mandarins, are desperately seeking to import uranium to improve the load factor of existing atomic power plants and is also planning to set up new nuclear reactors despite the disappointing results at home and abroad, it appeared as an excellent business opportunity to the US for bailing out its own reactor making industry at Indias cost. According to news reports, in response to the Bush Administrations demand for preferential rights, the Government of India has assured the US Secretary of State in advance that India would purchase 10 reactors from the USA and has reserved two sites for their placement. Reportedly, some strong letters of intent to some commercial firms in the USA have also been given. When some American commentators, challenging presidential candidate McCains idea of setting up some nuclear plants are saying that nuclear energy is too extravagant even for an economy as rich as Americas, the Manamohan Singh Government, which faces a resource crunch to fight poverty, has largesses to set up twenty new nuclear reactors! None can blame Americas cupidity when there are Timons of Athens in India wishing to make India a nation of destitutes.
4. The USA is strong in its determination to disallow any but the five nuclear-have countries to develop nuclear muscle. Yet, India, Israel and Pakistan have developed nuclear weapons. Several others, too, are striving to possess similar capacities. Despite the American opposition, India conducted nuclear tests twicein 1974 and 1998. Now, when Indias vainglorious nuclear overlords are going a-begging for uranium fuel, this is the opportunity to squeeze India and pin it down to actually observing NPT rules and procedures even without India becoming a formal NPT signatory.
The US Power Elite has succeeded in achieving all these four major objectives through this deal. The US is already pushing the sale of multi-purpose combat aircraft to India for Rs 45,000 crores. Besides, the USA expects India to buy at least 100 billion dollars (Rs four-and-a-half lakh crores) worth of military hardware (missiles, radars and other items) over the next ten years. The import of ten nuclear reactors with 10,000 MW power generation capacity from the USA alone will cost anything between Rs 50,000 crores and Rs 80,000 crores. Then, there will be costs of imports of other nuclear reactors from France and Russia. The setting up of a reprocessing plant will cost more than Rs 10,000 crores. Since the resulting rise in demand for uranium will raise its per-ton price in the international market, this will mean heavy bleeding of India continually. Thus, it is an unprecedented programme of depriving Indias starving millions further to bail out the richest nations armaments and nuclear reactor industries.
