Nobody’s paid any attention to this, but as Mark Goldberg points out probably the most significant news of the weekend was the Nuclear Suppliers Group’s decision to give the go-ahead to the US-India nuclear deal. Daryl Kimball and Joseph Cirincione have described the deal as “a non-proliferation disaster.” I sort of reconciled myself to it being a fait accompli a while ago. It goes to show, however, that if we want to get global non-proliferation policy on the right track we’re going to have to start doing things differently. The preferred American scenario in which the extent to which a country’s nuclear activities are permitted is just a function of how we feel about them seems unlikely to be viable over the long haul. To prevent countries from going nuclear, you need a quite robust level of international cooperation and that means a fairly neutral, objective scheme that all different kinds of countries can endorse.
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