IS IT OK to bend international rules over the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons? That’s the question raised by the lifting of a ban that had prevented India from trading in commercial nuclear fuel, equipment and technology.
The Nuclear Supplier’s Group, a cartel of 45 member countries including the US and UK, voted on Saturday in Vienna, Austria, to waive the stringent requirements on nuclear commerce that had been imposed on India ever since it tested a nuclear bomb in 1974.
The NSG’s special waiver is crucial for a proposed nuclear trade agreement between the US and India. The US pushed hard for the exemption, arguing that…
