Antinuclear

India secretly diverted Canadian uranium to nuclear weapons

Harper in India: bad timing, bad mood Macleans, by Erica Alini , November 7, 2012″…….. there were three key deals on the table when Harper left for India on Saturday night:

1. A few administrative arrangements needed to be worked out in order for Canada to start shipping uranium and nuclear technologies to India after the two countries signed a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in 2010. The crux of the matter here was that, after India surreptitiously diverted uranium produced at a Canadian plant to its first nuclear bomb in 1974, Ottawa wanted to be able to closely monitor the stuff this time around. India’s position, on the other hand, was that they report to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and that should be enough to keep us satisfied. Those differences have now been overcome, the Harper government announced on Tuesday . According to Reuters, we’ve beat Australia to this —they are still looking for assurances on nuclear safeguards—but it’s not clear yet whether Ottawa has had to make significant concessions to get the Indians on board…… http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/07/harper-in-india-this-is-the-trip-that-was/

November 15, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international