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18 Discussion of Indo-U.S. Cooperation
18 Discussion of Indo-U.S. Cooperation
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Murthy and John Holdren, who both discussed opportunities and pitfalls; the subsequent discussion attempted to narrow down the subjects for cooperation, but also noted political and other obstacles. Murthy began by reiterating the commonalities between India and the United States: they are the biggest democratic countries in the world, and they have a shared faith in human freedom, which is sometimes exploited by terrorists.
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? Other forms of interaction include standing joint committees for oversight and analysis (such as an existing committee within the National Academies and Russian Academy of Sciences for oversight and analysis of U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation and counterterrorism)
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, which he termed a "denial group." The NSG had to be converted to a "nuclear safety group." There might also be a consortium of nuclear plant builders to develop a standard design, and evolve standard safety practices, and pool expertise to develop cheaper alternative sources of energy for countries that cannot afford civilian nuclear plants. Rasgotra concluded by observing that unless there was a world organization or facility that collectively devised means of providing cheap, affordable, nonnuclear energy to such countries, this race for nuclear power will continue.
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The problem of nuclear facility security raises political sensitivities, but it is important to protect these facilities from terrorist attacks; getting the right language that would allow this type of cooperation is something that intelligent people can work on. In the area of personnel identification and authentication, Patel noted that it was evident that inexpensive biometrics both for identification and for authentication would help enormously.
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National Nuclear Security Administration to discuss nuclear emergency management, although he noted that there had not yet been a response from the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. Further, the Defense Attaché Office has discussed the idea of cooperation in installing sensors along India's borders; in addition, there already was a joint program in which India and the United States collaborated on the development of vaccines.
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Narasimha noted that the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore has worked intermittently with a group of academics from the National Law School University (Bangalore) , and there are some firms in Bangalore that specialize in legal issues connected with computers.
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There were some dimensions of data management that did not fall afoul of civil liberties, or involve comprehensive sifting of communications intercepts, an approach that raises political issues. As Branscomb noted, this is the area of sensors and networks.
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a cluster of surveillance-related issues, with an overlap between some kinds of biometrics and human surveillance 4. nuclear safety, possibly with the involvement of the Indian Safety Research Institute and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board 158
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