The Week's Nuclear Round-Up: 3-9 December '07

Published in the IDSA's Strategic Digest as part of The Week in Review Section India Debate in Parliament continues; Burns: The 123 agreement is done and completed, Implementation remains; Second round of India-IAEA talks on India specific safeguards begin Debate in the Parliament continued on the Indo-US nuclear agreement. EAM...

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Intelligence report on Iranian nukes: Vindication of India's Stand?

This was published on the South Asia Monitor website India Iran (Rising Powers website) The mandarins at South Block have every reason to be pleased with the latest US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian nuclear programme. In many ways, the NIE has vindicated the Indian stand on the Iranian nuclear issue. The Indian policy on...

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The Week’s Nuclear Round-Up: 26 November – 2 December 07

Published in the IDSA's Strategic Digest as part of The Week in Review Section   INDIA Moscow assures New Delhi of lifetime fuel supply for the two 1000 MW reactors at Koodankulam; Opposition questions government decision not to sign intergovernmental agreement with Russia; Parliament discusses nuclear deal Moscow has assured New Delhi of lifetime supply for the two 1,000 MW nuclear...

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The Week's Nuclear Round-Up: 19-25 November 07

IndiaMenon holds talks with Mulford; Kakodkar meets ElBaradei; China indicates its support for India at NSG With the Left parties acquiescing to talks on the India-specific safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the government has quickly got its act together. Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon held a meeting with the US Ambassador, David Mulford on 19 November to discuss...

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The Week's Nuclear Round-Up 12-18 November '07

India • Indo-Russian Koodankulam agreement fails to materialise; Left allows government to talk to IAEA; PM, Sonia bat for nuclear deal at AICC meeting The much expected Indo-Russian agreement for the construction of four additional reactors at the Koodankulam site failed to materialize during Prime Minster Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to Moscow. No reasons were assigned for the agreement...

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The Week's Nuclear Round-Up 5-11 November '07

India• Indian expert to be sent to Switzerland to explain Indo-US nuclear deal; India-Russia to sign agreements for 4 more reactors during Dr. Singh’s visit Switzerland President Micheline Calmy-Rey told reporters at the end of her New Delhi visit during the week that she had requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send an Indian expert to Switzerland in order to explain the Indo-US nuclear deal.[1]...

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It's about the Fuel, Stupid!

Published in the IPCS website in November 2007. PM Singh (IBN Live) There was a sense among supporters of the nuclear deal that if India missed the bus on the Indo-US nuclear agreement, it would come back to haunt us sooner rather than later. What one did not know was that, this would happen so soon. The recent news about the Nuclear Power Corporation...

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Indo-US nuclear deal and the Issue of Uninterrupted Fuel Supplies

Indo-US nuclear deal (from Rusin speaks) On the issue of continued fuel supply in the event of termination of the agreement, the critics of the nuclear deal are jumping the gun when they say that the US would prevent other Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) countries from continuing with their supply of fuel and other supplies to India if the agreement...

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The “Nuts and Bolts" of North Korean disablement

Kim Jong-un (First post.com) Disablement is a word that has crept into the language of the Six-Party talks since it was used by Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary. In the absence of a more acceptable term, disablement became something of a convenience. There is a general agreement that the current phase is a difficult one....

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The Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal

_uacct = "UA-2877747-1"; urchinTracker(); This article was published in the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses website as an IDSA Strategic Comment   In the midst of the domestic hullabaloo surrounding the nuclear deal in India, the United States convened a special meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on September 20, 2007 at...

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Parsing the Indo – US 123 Agreement

_uacct = "UA-2877747-1"; urchinTracker(); This article was published as Pugwash India Backgrounder in the Indian Pugwash Society's in-house journal Proliferation and Arms Control, Vol IV, 6, August 2007 I) What is the 123 Agreement? President Bush and  Prime Minister Singh (WPR) The 123 Agreement [1] is an agreement for civil nuclear...

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Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

This was published as Pugwash India Backgrounder in Proliferation and Arms Control, Vol IV, 5, July 2007. The genesis of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) and its place in the larger counter proliferation framework The genesis of the GI can be traced back to US President Bush’s statement where he identified the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) as a major...

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The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) and India

This article was published when I was Associate Fellow, Indian Pugwash Society, Proliferation and Arms Control, Vol IV, No. 4, June 2007 United Nations Security Council The successful completion of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT), some believe, would be an important step towards the ultimate goal of eventual elimination of nuclear weapons....

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The 123 Agreement and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal

_uacct = "UA-2877747-1"; urchinTracker(); This was published as Pugwash India Backgrounder in Proliferation and Arms Control, Vol IV, 3, April May 2007.  What is the 123 Agreement and why is it called so? The 123 agreement is the proposed agreement for civil nuclear cooperation. It is called the 123 Agreement because in the US Atomic...

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IAEA Safeguards Regime

_uacct = "UA-2877747-1"; urchinTracker(); This was published as Pugwash India Backgrounder in Proliferation and Arms Control, Feb-March 2007, Vol IV, No. 2. The article was written while I was working as Associate Fellow at the Society. What are the Objectives, Purposes and Assumptions of IAEA Safeguards? The objective of traditional safeguards as brought out in INFCIRC 153 is “…the...

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