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Expert says full potential of India-US civil nuclear deal is untapped
Updated On: 27 November, 2023 07:50 AM IST | Washington | PTI
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More than 18 years after India and the US signed a civil nuclear deal, its full potential and promise along with the larger bilateral partnership is yet to be realised, according to a top American expert. While New Delhi is yet to remove obstacles that prevent its purchase of nuclear reactors from the United States, Washington has not been able to match the policy with vision, Ashley J Tellis, the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said. US President Joe Biden`s ambition to finally fructify the 2005 civil nuclear agreement cannot end with the sale of US nuclear reactors to India.
Rather, it must extend to revising long-standing US policies that continue to make the existence of India`s nuclear weapons programme an insuperable obstacle to deepened technological cooperation, he asserted in an opinion piece published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Monday. "Where India is concerned, New Delhi is long overdue in removing the obstacles that prevent its purchase of nuclear reactors from the United States, consistent with the written commitments it made during the implementation of the nuclear deal.
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