US-India Close to Nuclear Deal

The US Senate is expected to vote soon on a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India.  The agreement could open the way for the selling of nuclear technology - including reactors and fuel – to the country which, as a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is barred from receiving such goods. The House of Representatives approved the agreement last week. Speaking on the Senate Floor today, Senator Richard Lugar expressed his support for the deal.

FSRN spoke with Dr. Edwin Lyman, a Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC.  He is also a past president of the Nuclear Control Institute, an organization committed to nuclear nonproliferation. We asked Dr. Lyman to respond to Senator Lugar's remarks.

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