Furthermore , the agreement , as a result of its compliance with the Hyde Act , contained a direct linkage between shutting down US nuclear trade with India and any potential future Indian nuclear weapons test , a point that was factually inconsistent with explicit reassurances made on this subject by Prime Minister , Manmohan Singh , during final parliamentary debate on the nuclear deal . As professor Brahma Chellaney , an expert in strategic affairs and one of the authors of the Indian Nuclear Doctrine , explained : While the Hyde Act 's bar on Indian testing is explicit , the one in the NSG waiver is implicit , yet unmistakable . The NSG waiver is overtly anchored in NSG Guidelines Paragraph 16 , which deals with the consequence of " an explosion of a nuclear device " . The waiver 's Section 3 ( e ) refers to this key paragraph , which allows a supplier to call for a special NSG meeting , and seek termination of cooperation , in the event of a test or any other " violation of a supplier-recipient understanding " . The recently leaked Bush administration letter to Congress has cited how this Paragraph 16 rule will effectively bind India to the Hyde Act 's conditions on the pain of a U.S.-sponsored cut-off of all multilateral cooperation . India will not be able to escape from the U.S.-set conditions by turning to other suppliers . On July 9 , 2008 , India formally submitted the safeguards agreement to the IAEA . This development came after the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh returned from the 34th G8 summit meeting in Hokkaido , Japan , where he met with U.S. President George W. Bush . On June 19 , 2008 , news media reported that Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh threatened to resign his position if the Left Front , whose support was crucial for the ruling United Progressive Alliance to prove its majority in the Indian parliament , continued to oppose the nuclear deal and he described their stance as irrational and reactionary . According to '' The Hindu '' , External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee 's earlier statement said " I can not bind the government if we lose our majority , " implying that United Progressive Alliance government would not put its signature on any deal with IAEA if it lost the majority in either an ' opposition-initiated no-confidence motion ' or if failing to muster a vote of confidence in Indian parliament after being told to prove its majority by the president . On July 8 , 2008 , Prakash Karat announced that the Left Front is withdrawing its support to the government over the decision by the government to go ahead on the United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act . The left front had been a staunch advocate of not proceeding with this deal citing national interests
34th G8 summit
34th G8 summit
India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement