WORLD AFFAIRS: Behind Washington’s nuclear deal with India*

Washington values India as a strategic partner and wants it to become a world power, writes Dr Sharif Shuja.The United States has struck a historic deal with India under which India will be permitted to acquire civilian nuclear technology internationally while retaining its nuclear arms.Though India will remain outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), US officials say that the bilateral accord, concluded by US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on J…

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