India's just desserts

摘要

Smiling Buddha' was the codename for India's first nuclear bomb test in 1974. He must be grinning widely this week after Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, reached a nuclear cooperation deal with US President George W. Bush. The agreement would end a three-decade-old ban on US exports of nuclear technology or fuel to India. The United States will also move to amend international rules that permit nuclear exports only to countries that allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards on all their nuclear facilities. These rules were created in response to India's 1974 test, which used plutonium supplied by Canada.