Sitting down before the start of the afternoon workshop on Getting to Zero yesterday I have to admit to being a little intimidated. I was to open before Michael Krepon, someone highly involved in the issue for many years and whose work I had read a great deal of.
Event hosted by the EastWest Institute in cooperation with BASIC and other NGOs, at the United Nations in New York.
For summaries and a report on the event, follow this link to EWI\’s website:
In this issue: Commitments to disarmament and arms control ; Country reports ; Missile defense ; etc
India and Iran's strategic relationship has weakened, and Iran, a NPT signatory, is aggrieved by the double standards that are apply to it and to India under the recent US–India nuclear deal.
The East-West Institute, in cooperation with BASIC, CNS, NGOCDPS, the Global Security Institute, and other organizations, will host a conference that will include UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Henry Kissinger, Hans Blix and other international experts.
On October 1, 2008 the US Congress passed the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. The long anticipated agreement would allow US companies to trade nuclear technology, information, and material to India. It has faced several hurdles, including first passing the US Congress in 2006, the Indian Parliament in July, the IAEA Board of Governors in August, and the Nuclear Suppliers Group in September. Controversy surrounds the agreement because, India is not an established member of the nonproliferation regime and it detonated nuclear devices in 1998.