US-India nuclear deal appears to be in trouble

NEW DELHI (AP)

U.S. policymakers see India as a counterweight to an ever-more powerful China, and the deal reverses three decades of American policy by allowing the shipment of nuclear fuel and technology to India, which has never signed international nonproliferation accords and yet has tested atomic weapons.

India, in exchange, would allow international inspections of its civilian nuclear reactors.

For Bush, the deal