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ear Cooperation Agreement, which provides American assistance to India's nuclear power industry but does not require concessions on its nuclear weapons program.It's a side deal that allows India to ramp up its production of weaponsgrade plutonium, encouraging other nations to violate nonproliferation agreements at a critical time, congressional critics say. US law prohibits the sale of nuclear technology to any nation, such as India, which has not signed the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty.In a short statement, International Relations chairman Henry Hyde (R) of Illinois said that his committee will thoroughly examine the specific provisions of this agreement and its potential conseq
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 illance drone, a guided shell, and a powered bomb  were purged from the 1989 defense budget because of technical troubles.We have to be careful that we don't sink all our resources into the fantasy of silver bullets,says Dennis Kloske, an adviser for NATO armaments to the secretary of defense. But we need to conserve and identify and advance key technologies.In the wake of the superpower treaty banning mediumrange nuclear missiles, the state of NATO tank armies and air forces has become a muchdiscussed topic among alliance members. Conventional weapons modernization will surely be a subject high on the agenda during President Reagan's NATO meetings in Brussels this week.At
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