“This is Santa Claus negotiating. The goal seems to have been to give away as much as possible.”
-George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"Basically the nuclear establishment of India dug in its heels, Prime Minister Singh backed them up, and the administration caved again."
-Robert Einhorn, Senior analyst, Center for Strategic and International Studies
“You can cheat and we may apply sanctions for a while, but in the end…we'll give you what you wanted in the first place.”
-Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association
The deal “whitewashes, via silence, India’s past transgressions in violating bilateral agreements with the United States and Canada, and it puts the United States in arguable violation of its own commitments to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.”
-Leonard Weiss, a key architect of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act
“This is the Holy Grail of international acceptance, and we sold it for pennies on the dollar.”
- Jon Wolfsthal, Center for Strategic and International Studies
“It’s Orwellian doublespeak…They’re giving up their ability to be credible when they oppose proliferation.”
-Gary Millhollin, Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
“It is very difficult to make the case to the international community and to the Iranians themselves that we are serious about proliferation.”
-Ray Takeyh, Senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
“With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants…This creates suspicion, which is what you don’t want.”
-David Albright, President, Institute for Science and International Security
"It would appear as though we just basically wanted this agreement so badly we got it - badly,"
-Henry Sokolski, Director, Nonproliferation Education Policy Center
“The lesson Iran is likely to draw is simple: if you hold out long enough, the Americans will cave. All this talk about violating treaties, they will reason, is just smoke.”
-Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“There are huge downside risks here if we break up the rules of nuclear commerce we have spent decades tightening.”
-Michael Krepon, Stimson Center
“By adding safeguards to the civilian reactors but not to the weapons reactors, the Administration has put lipstick on the wrong pig.”
-Ed Markey, Co-Chair, Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation
“We’re basically saying that India can do something that Iran can’t do. It’s very damaging for nonproliferation efforts to have this double standard.”
-William Potter, Monterey Institute for International Studies
