Walker's World: Indian nukes and the G8

By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus PARIS, July 9 (UPI) -- Forget about that hollow claim from the Group of Eight summit that the main industrialized nations have agreed to halve carbon emissions by 2050. They promised that 16 years ago at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. The most important event at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, was a meeting on the sidelines between U.S. President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that will change the geopolitics of Asia. It also could implode what is left of the world's control regime against nuclear proliferation, the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S.-India nuclear pact was agreed on in 2005. It would bring India in from the cold as a nuclear weapons power that chose never to sign the NPT. This means India has long been barred from getting nuclear... [read full story]