That leaves Section 106, which will ensure that the nuclear exemption for India will cease to be effective if “the president determines that India has detonated an explosive device.” India faced severe sanctions when it tested in 1998, and even in the absence of the deal, it will not likely go unpunished for testing, particularly if it did so unilaterally. But is this clause — or, for that matter, the entire combination of less-than-perfect passages in the Hyde Act — enough of a reason to postpone or reject the nuclear deal?
The writer researches US foreign policy towards South Asia in Washington DC dhruva.jaishankar@gmail.com
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