Joining the nuclear family

摘要

"We have made history today," Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, told George Bush after a joint press conference in Delhi on March 2nd. They had just clinched what Mr Bush likewise called "an historic agreement" on nuclear power. Many critics believe it will prove an historic mistake. The deal completes an accord the two men reached in Washington, DC, in July 2005, to bring India out of the international nuclear wilderness. Never having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), India carried out a nuclear explosion in 1974, and took the world by surprise again by testing several bombs in 1998.