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Jon Wolfsthal, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "US-India Nuclear Deal's Future Uncertain."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jeopardized by an Indian political squabble, the landmark U.S.-India nuclear deal -- one of President Bush's top foreign policy priorities -- is at risk of being left to an uncertain fate when the next president takes office in January.
Jon Wolfsthal, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank and an adviser to the Clinton campaign, says that if India should fail to act this year, ''It's unlikely that any of the (U.S.) candidates will be anxious to resubmit this or push this ahead.''
The Bush administration, Wolfsthal said, wanted to win over India as ''a strategic military partner to help contain China.'' McCain, Clinton and Obama, he said, do not have the same drive to settle the deal.
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