The Nuclear Suppliers Group's Critical India Decision
June 20, 2016  23:53
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Beginning on Tuesday, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, or NSG -- 48 countries that export most of the world's nuclear material, equipment, and technology '" will meet in Seoul to decide whether India should now be allowed to join.

The United States has strongly urged the NSG to say yes.

The NSG should not say yes next week. It should tell India that there are good reasons to include it, but also that the group needs to complete an internal fact-finding and consensus-forming process in part to prepare the NSG for the consequences of possible Indian membership.

The US has argued that bringing India into the group would be good for nuclear nonproliferation. So far it isn't clear what the net overall benefit would be, especially because the White House is prepared to go forward without India having made non-proliferation commitments that many others in the group have made and virtually all say are important.

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