On August 30th India's upper house passed a nuclear-liability law that will make suppliers of nuclear fuels and related gear liable for 80 years in the event of any malfunction.
Indian legislation about the liability for nuclear accidents in effect closes to American companies the very market Mr Bush sacrificed so much to prise open.
Subsidies can propel risky technologies ahead of the natural ability to properly assimilate them, or worse, prompt liability waivers as in homeland security and nuclear power.