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Science 23 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5781, p. 1729
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5781.1729b
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The chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has gone to bat for the proposed U.S.-India nuclear technology agreement (Science, 10 March, p. 1356), raising the chances it will pass. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) told an audience last week at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, that the deal represents "the most important strategic diplomatic initiative undertaken by President Bush." Lugar's comments counter those made recently in The Wall Street Journal by nonproliferation activist and former senator Sam Nunn, who says the Senate should, among other things, demand that India halt its production of fissile material for weapons as a condition of passage.

The move suggests that "Congress is not going to turn the deal down," says Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. Lugar's committee is expected to take up the issue sometime this month.




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