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An Australian Perspective on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal

Sandy Gordon is Professor, Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of the Asia-Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Following its election in 2007, the Labour government imposed a moratorium on export of Australian uranium to India. This article argues that with the Indo-US deal and concomitant agreements now in place, Australia should agree to export uranium to India. It does so on the grounds that the agreements will adequately protect Australian uranium from misuse, will not unduly test the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, could open out opportunities to meet important safety concerns, could help stabilise potentially dangerous vertical and horizontal proliferation and could also mitigate the region's burgeoning production of greenhouse gases. In supporting the agreements through nuclear trade with India, however, Australia should use any influence it is able to garner thereby to ensure that the Indo-US agreement itself is not seen as part of an attempt on the part of the United States (US), or any other power, to harness India as a means of containing China, and thus exacerbating what could become a destabilising tendency in the region.

South Asian Survey, Vol. 16, No. 1, 43-57 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/097152310801600104


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