{"id":195216,"date":"2008-07-22T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/indian-government-wins-confidence-vote-on-nuke-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:56:00","slug":"indian-government-wins-confidence-vote-on-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/indian-government-wins-confidence-vote-on-nuke-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Government Wins Confidence Vote on Nuke Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/reuters\/2008\/07\/22\/asia\/OUKWD-UK-INDIA-VOTE.php\">275 votes to 256 with 10 abstentions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I think that the nuclear deal is a bad one, it provides civilian nuclear technology to India while its weapons program proceeds apace, but it puts me on the side of the  the BJP,<sup>*<\/sup> which makes me feeling queasy, though their objection is a nationalist one, that there should be no limits on weapons building and testing, and mine is an anti-proliferation one, that we are rewarding a proliferator with the deal, and will inevitably supply technology for weapons development, simply to benefit the moribund US nuclear industry.<\/p>\n<p>It still has to pass Congress, which is unlikely until after Bush leaves office, and a new administration may wish to tweak the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 275 votes to 256 with 10 abstentions. Honestly, I think that the nuclear deal is a bad one, it provides civilian nuclear technology to India while its weapons program proceeds apace, but it puts me on the side of the the BJP,* which makes me feeling queasy, though their objection is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1042,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons","category-proliferation","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}