Today's date:
 
Summer 1998


The End of Nuclear Colonization

Jaswant Singh is senior advisor to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behair Vajpayee on defense and foreign affairs. He is conducting negotiations with US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on whether India will sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and whether the United States will lift economic sanctions imposed at the time of India's recent nuclear tests.

New Delhi
- India's nuclear policy remains firmly committed to one basic tenet: In a world of nuclear proliferation, our national security lies either in global disarmament or in the exercise of the principle of equal and legitimate security for all.

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