Does India really need more Nukes?

[Disturbed]

Nuclear Pact between U.S., India Draws Fire
by Ron Hutcheson and Jonathan S. Landay


"The bottom line is that this deal would allow India to significantly increase its nuclear weapons arsenal and provides precious little safeguarding," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. "This is a nonproliferation nothing-burger, and Congress will see it as that if they look carefully."


But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently said Pakistan couldn't expect the same treatment. "Pakistan is not in the same place as India," she said.

India has an estimated 50 to 60 nuclear warheads, according to a September report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. arms-control group.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0303-06.htm

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

India will definitely be the next superpower.

[DS1]

2. What's so hard to understand about an arms buildup by proxy

where you can sell advanced technology, tanks, fighters, detection equipment, bunkers, bunker-busters, bunker-buster-proof-bunkers, and so on and so on and if both countries go to shit you get all those outsourced jobs back.

??

Seems pretty simple to me.

[Disturbed]

3. In my view this will only spur other nations to obtain...

nukes and make Pakistanis more angry than they already are. The most dangerous nation is not N. Korea or Iran, it is Pakistan. Think about that.

[DS1]

5. oops

forgot the :sarcasm: rider
didn't think I'd need it with a statement like that

[neoblues]

4. Perhaps they're following our model... more is better...

More is just always better--more everything or anything, in every way, in all cases... right? Not, but it does seem to reflect something about our own culture.

And when it comes to P O W E R, unless you can destroy the known world a dozen times over, you're still pretty puny? eh? Of course, George (and us by association) is the only one allowed to have that kind of power. Though, truly, the fewer countries that have such power and the smaller that power is, the safer we'll all be (for the more there are, the greater the chance that they will be used or will be stolen by those who will use them or... any other complication--all the more likely). Of course, too, since we have a fair sized pile of the things, not many countries who have or are seeking a few of their own are going to listen to us when we tell them they shouldn't want more and/or cannot have more (or any).