The Bush administration made a deal with this nation, India, to provide it with civilian nuclear technology. In the process, the administration effectively let India off the hook for its decades-old nuclear weapons program and made an exception to its otherwise strict refusal to provide civilian nuclear technology to nations that do not abide by certain in-ternational guidelines. The result, critics have asserted, is that other na-tions may be encouraged to follow India's path and that the nuclear non-proliferation "regime" has therefore been damaged.

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