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Nuclear Weapons

Beyond Nuclear advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and argues that removing them can only make us safer, not more vulnerable. The expansion of commercial nuclear power across the globe only increases the chance that more nuclear weapons will be built and is counterproductive to disarmament. We also cover nuclear weapons issues on our international site, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Sunday
Jul122009

Senate passes dangerous U.S.-India Nuclear deal

The Senate passed the U.S.-India deal on October 1, 86 to 13. On September 26, 2008 the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Bush Administration's U.S.-India Nuclear Deal that undermines three decades of American and international nuclear weapons non-proliferation policy. In the aftermath of India's 1974 nuclear weapons test, secretly carried out under the cover of its civilian nuclear power sector, the world community banned atomic commerce with India. Now, despite India's continued refusal to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and its intention to persist in making weapons-usable materials in certain of its atomic facilities, nuclear trade with India has reopened.

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