'morning G'day Bruce,

Who are you quoting when you say "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see".?

Blind to what? What will we not see? Who precisely are those to whom you refer? Please don't respond with " all those who disagree" with you. That would be too obvious.

India is currently considered a friendly country to Australia. We feel safe.

Situations in the world can change DRAMATICALLY however.

The fact is that India is still quite a barbaric nation in many, many ways, despite it's gains and advances. It's a very cruel nation, with lots of horrid, inhumane internal practices.

India is not, and will never be, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty nor any similar future treaty. It goes against India's culture and principles, and the people on this forum simply don't comprehend that. It will use it's nuclear arsenal eventually to subjugate Pakistan, and any other country that interferes with India's will.

Let's keep our uranium out of India. Let's not be part of India's future power surge.

Sweeney's special pleading for uranium-phobia is ludicrous. You need steel to make nuclear weapons too, does that mean we shouldn't sell iron ore to India either? It's the same logic!

AdrianD

Much of what you say is true. But it is especiously hard to generalise about India's people - a highly diverse nation of 1.2 Billion.

Mark Duffett

Iron may be a constituent of nuclear weapons but its the explosives that distinguish nuclear weapons from the merely conventional. Those nuclear explosives include Uranium + its derivatives (Plutonium + Tritium for extra bang).

On India's latest nasty nuke see my blog at http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/why-would-india-want-to-develop-10000_26.html

Pete

If people like Dave Sweeney are so concerned about possible destructive technology then they must lobby to stop funding Universities because that's where much of this is created at taxpayers expense.

For the rotating medico:
There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See:
• According to the ‘Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings’ this proverb has been traced back to 1546 (John Heywood), and resembles the Biblical verse Jeremiah 5:21 (‘Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not’). In 1738 it was used by Jonathan Swift in his ‘Polite Conversation’ and is first attested in the United States in the 1713 ‘Works of Thomas Chalkley’. The full saying is: ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know’.
"Those" refers to all those who, knowing full well the dangers associated with nukes, blithely assume that all will be well, eternally. Bad things just won't happen.