Breaking Up (a Nuclear Program) Is Hard to Do

摘要

New Delhi—Anil Kakodkar is a legendary figure in India's rise to nuclear statehood. Now pressure is building on the self-described technocrat to prove his diplomatic mettle as well. A historic nuclear agreement between India and the United States is riding on India's plan to segregate its nuclear establishment into civilian and military components (Science, 20 January, p. 318). As chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission in Mumbai and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, an agency with 65,000 staff and a $1.2 billion budget, Kakodkar has been asked to draw the civil-military line.