The US imposed curbs on nuclear technology transfers to India in the wake of India's nuclear tests in 1998.
But just as we all agree on the need to prevent a nuclear disaster, we also agree on the benefits of nuclear technology and peaceful nuclear power, what it can do to bring the world -- if properly managed and protected -- to a better place.
International sanctions on Iran include a UN embargo on arms exports and nuclear technology as well as EU bans on most financial transactions as well as the purchase of crude oil.
Mr Rendel has also strongly campaigned on opposition to nuclear technology.
Mitch McConnell said something very nice in the meeting about how he supports our goals on nuclear energy and clean coal technology and more drilling to increase oil production.
Kasuri said Sunday that foreign intelligence had years ago passed on information about Khan giving nuclear technology to other countries -- prompting his removal in 2001 as head of the Khan Research Laboratories, the main nuclear lab named after him.
The parties have agreed to hold a technical-level meeting in Istanbul on July 3, where experts in nuclear technology will hash out details, she said.
That would likely mean a greater reliance on Western reactor technology and plant-management methods and on Western providers of nuclear equipment and services, which have struggled for a place in this state-dominated industry.
They agreed on the urgency of halting the spread of nuclear weapons technology, the state department spokesman said, according to the Associated Press.
As for sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, they have been even more limited to certain aspects of nuclear technology and arms, with virtually no impact on the Iranian economy.
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The third reason for our deterrent is that it would prevent a cascade of proliferation because of the nuclear umbrella that the United States provides for over thirty-one countries, including many with the technology and resources for the development of nuclear deterrence on their own.
No scientist working on India's nuclear programme was under any illusion that bomb-making technology, once learned, could somehow be unlearned.
The U.S. has said North Korea does not possess a nuclear warhead or the required technology to miniaturize one to fit on its rockets, but it could put a "dirty bomb" or conventional weapon on one.
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The meeting also covered topics which the EU-US largely agree on - including worries about Iran's nuclear programme, efforts to increase clean energy technology and avoid climate change, as well as supporting democracy after the Arab Spring.
Pickering and Kampelman were no more convincing on the mechanics of eliminating all nuclear weapons, given the widespread availability of the relevant technology and know-how and the ease with which small arsenals could be concealed by dictators ruling closed societies.
India has been working on thorium for some years, but the technology is as different from today's nuclear power as gas is from coal, and very few nuclear engineers even hear about liquid fuel during their training, let alone get to work on it.
The US quickly imposed sanctions on India, but more recently the two countries have improved their ties, and even agreed to share nuclear technology.
There are positive signs, however, as the two countries work together on several important bilateral and multilateral issues such as nuclear non-proliferation, counterterrorism, energy security and information technology.
Six months later the image still sears Brown's mind, but he conjures up another one: an even more crippling new wave of attacks that might come next, puncturing the U.S.' technology underbelly and disabling the networks that keep nuclear missiles in their silos, the lights on in hospitals and automatic teller machines belching out cash.
Six months later the image still sears Brown's mind, but he conjures up another one: an even more crippling new wave of attacks that might come next, puncturing the nation's technology underbelly and disabling the networks that keep nuclear missiles in their silos, the lights on at hospitals, milk on store shelves and ATMs belching out cash.
The United States, meanwhile, slapped new sanctions on Iran on Thursday, targeting a handful of companies and individuals it says are providing materials and technology to Tehran's nuclear program.
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