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Here is a sampler of subjects to be covered by reports to US Congress:

1. An analysis as to whether imported uranium has affected the rate of production in India of nuclear explosive devices;

2. An estimate of —

(i) the amount of uranium mined and milled in India during the previous year;

(ii) the amount of such uranium that has likely been used or allocated for the production of nuclear explosive devices; and

(iii) the rate of production in India of —

(a) fissile material for nuclear explosive

devices; and

(b) nuclear explosive devices;

3. An analysis of whether US civil nuclear cooperation with India is in any way assisting India’s nuclear weapons programme, including through—

(i) the use of any US equipment, technology, or nuclear material by India in an

unsafeguarded nuclear facility or nuclear-weapons related complex;

(ii) the replication and subsequent use of any US technology by India in an unsafeguarded nuclear facility or unsafeguarded nuclear weapons-related complex, or for any activity related to the research, development, testing, or manufacture of nuclear explosive devices; and

(iii) the provision of nuclear fuel in such a manner as to facilitate the increased production by India of highly enriched uranium or plutonium in unsafeguarded nuclear facilities;

4. A description and assessment of the specific measures that India has taken to fully and actively participate in US and international efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability and the capability to enrich uranium or reprocess nuclear fuel and the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction.

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