Carter slams US-India nuclear deal

Mr Irrelevant is at it again....

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US president Jimmy Carter criticized Washington's civilian nuclear deal with India, saying it was "just one more step in opening a Pandora's box of nuclear proliferation."

"Knowing for more than three decades of Indian leaders' nuclear ambitions, I and all other presidents included them in a consistent policy: no sales of civilian nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to any country that refused to sign the NPT," Carter said in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.

India has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and developed nuclear weapons on its own.

US President George W. Bush clinched the landmark nuclear deal with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a visit to New Delhi on March 2 and is pushing Congress to amend the US Atomic Energy Act, which currently prohibits nuclear sales to non NPT signatories, to make the agreement effective.

It would give energy-starved India access to long-denied civilian nuclear technology in return for placing a majority of its civilian nuclear reactors under international inspection.

Someone needs to tell that him they already have the bomb, and not just a puny A bomb but an H bomb. Hey Jimmah, you might want to keep your mouth shut considering your track record concerning nuclear proliferation. The North Korean deal you so vigorously supported worked out well, didn't it.