Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal, Vol. III

Contents: Preface. 1. Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal: considerations and perspectives/K.R. Gupta. 2. Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal/Col. Ved Prakash. 3. The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal: struggle to defend national sovereignty/Prakash Karat. 4. Economics of Nuclear power from heavy water reactors/M.V. Ramana, Antonette D'Sa and Amulya and K.N. Reddy. 5. Feeding the nuclear fire/Zia Mian and M.V. Ramana. 6. U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative: facts sheet, bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Washington, DC. 7. Agreement for cooperation between the government of the United States of America and the Government of India concerning peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy. 8. Presidential determination No. 2008-26. 9. Report Pursuant to Section 104(c) of the Hyde Act Regarding Civil Nuclear Cooperation with India. 10. Nuclear Proliferation assessment statement Pursuant to Section 123a. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as Amended, with respect to the proposed agreement for cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India concerning peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy. 11. Working towards the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement/Richard A. Boucher. 12. The India safeguards Agreement: moving India towards the nonproliferation mainstream/Gregory L. Schulte. 13. Agreement Between the Government of India and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the application of Safeguards to Civilian Nuclear Facilities. 14. U.S. - India Relations/Richard A. Boucher. 15. Strategic context of U.S.- India Relations/Evan Feigenbaum. 16. Remarks with Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Kumar Mukherjee. 17. Indian and U.S. Relations/Richard A. Boucher. 18. Interview with the times of India/R. Nicholas Burns. 19. Implementation of the India-United States Joint Statement of July 18, 2005: India's Separation Plan. 20. Interview with Hindustan Times/R. Nicholas Burns. 21. An act to exempt from certain requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 a proposed Nuclear Agreement for Cooperation with India/Henry J. Hyde. Contributors. 

"The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal was envisaged during Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's visit to the U.S. in July 2005 which led to a Joint Statement announcing a slew of bilateral measures on areas like energy, space, agriculture, commerce and science and technology. The most important development perhaps was to initiate the measure to strengthen energy security and promote the development of energy markets in India with the objective of ensuring sufficient affordable energy supplies.

After many twists and turns of over three years during which several clauses of the deal met with severe criticism and stiff opposition from some quarters, both in America and India, the two countries finally sealed the unprecedented deal, on October 10, 2008, putting an end to controversies as well as to 34 years of India's nuclear isolation.

The issue of the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal is extremely complex involving national and international polity, nuclear non-proliferation, diplomacy as well as technicalities of the nuclear fuel cycle. This is also an important test case for both the United States and India to place their relationship in a new paradigm of collaborated acceleration rather than inconsistent progress in fits and starts. In the process, we will also be testing new waters of acceptance of India as a nuclear weapons state by the international community in general, and the nations in our immediate neighborhood, China and Pakistan, in particular.

The book in three volumes attempts to provide a holistic perspective of the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal in the context of international relations -- economic as well as nuclear energy cooperation. It is a seminal contribution to Indo-U.S. relations and will prove invaluable to students and scholars of international affairs, strategic analysts, policy planners diplomats, parliamentarians as well as common readers interested in contemporary world affairs." (jacket)