Dr. A.N. Prasad on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal

On Tuesday, I attended a talk by Dr. A.N. Prasad, former director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and an early critic of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. So prescient has he been that even before the deal was signed in July 2005, he sought to sound the alarm about it. An article I wrote based on his concerns was published in The Hindu on July 18 that year, half-a-day before the deal was signed in Washington.

In his recent talk, Dr. Prasad dwelt at length on the importance of reprocessing for the Indian nuclear programme. He ought to know, since he joined the DAE’s reprocessing group in 1959, the year it was set up.

To read the substance of his riveting and highlyLast month, in a head-spinning turn of events, the White House announced that the U.S. would not, in fact, be pulling out of NAFTA. The news capped a dizzying week in which reports circulated that Trump was reneging on his campaign promise to pull out of the “worst deal“ ever, followed by word that the administration was drafting an order to exit the deal, followed, 12 hours later, by the announcement that we would stick with it and renegotiate the terms with Mexico and Canada. According to Trump himself, he changed his mind because Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau called him up, asked him to please not pull out of the deal, and because Trump said he liked those countries, he said