LaRouche: U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Is A Disaster
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September 5, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today called for the U.S.-India nuclear deal to be scrapped, regardless of the outcome of the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting, and regardless of whether or not it results in the fall of the Singh government in India. LaRouche reiterated his longstanding view that India's future depends on the full development of its thorium-cycle nuclear power capacity. "The U.S.-India deal, insofar as it prevents the full exploitation by India of the thorium fuel cycle, is, in reality an anti-nuclear deal. It was a rotten deal from the outset, and it should be set aside, regardless of the short-term political consequences in India or the United States,'' LaRouche insisted.

LaRouche insisted that "no nuclear energy cooperation agreement that inhibits India's rapid and full development of its thorium reactors is acceptable. Thus, the U.S.-India deal should be tossed in the garbage can. If there is to be any U.S.-India bilateral agreement, and if the Nuclear Suppliers Group is to ratify such a deal, then it should be in the best interests of both nations, and clearly this agreement, as currently proposed, is very, very bad for India. The thorium cycle is an existential issue for India,'' LaRouche concluded.