Atoms for war?

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"This report uses the maximalist claim as its point of entry to demonstrate that India's ability to develop a larger nuclear arsenal than it currently possesses is not affected by the U.S.-Indian civilian nuclear cooperation initiative proposed by President Bush and Prime Minister Singh. In other words, whether the arsenal consists of the largest stockpile that protagonists of the maximalist claim imagine India would want to build, or whether it consists merely of some incremental addition as the minimalist version would have it, this report concludes that India has sufficient indigenous natural uranium to satisfy both scenarios. This conclusion obtains, in part, because India's weapons program requires only a small fraction of the natural uranium required to sustain its power production efforts. More importantly, however, India has sufficient natural uranium reserves to sustain the largest nuclear weapons program that can be envisaged relative to its current capabilities; it also possesses enough uranium to sustain more than three times its current and planned capacity as far as nuclear power production involving pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) is concerned)..." -- p.7