In India, as in Pakistan, young people appear to be less enthusiastic than their elders about the benefits of nuclear status.

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Mr Vajpayee has told foreign ambassadors that India's nuclear status is now a fact which, after a decent interval, must be taken into account.

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Thus, China got to nuclear status twelve years earlier than India.

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From 2000 to 2008, nuclear energy dropped from 16.7% to 13.5% of global energy production, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009.

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This support should extend to the disarming and destruction of such weapons in place, should the republics choose to adopt a nuclear-free status.

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On Thursday, Mr Yeltsin said his country must be treated according to its status as a nuclear power.

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On Sunday, Iranian analyst Amir Taheri reported the conclusions of a bipartisan French parliamentary report on the status of Iran's nuclear program in Asharq Alawsat.

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Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power over the monopoly's reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status.

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Unfortunately, the evidence strongly suggests that such developing nations are deciding to become nuclear weapons states for reasons that have nothing to do with the status of the U.S. testing program.

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They are more willing than Clinton was to think about taking U.S. missile forces off alert status, and they are open to other suggestions for reducing nuclear risk.

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