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Clinton says India is on 'wrong side of history' with nuclear tests
May 16, 1998
Web posted at: 2:13 p.m. EDT (1813 GMT)WASHINGTON (CNN) -- India has put itself "on the wrong side of history" by conducting five nuclear weapons tests earlier this week, President Clinton said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
The president, in a speech recorded Friday, called on India to sign the proposed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear explosions.
"The Indian government has put itself at odds with the international community over these nuclear tests," said Clinton, who also is pushing the U.S. Senate to rafify the treaty he accepted two years ago.
"I hope India will reverse course from the dangerous path it has chosen by signing the CTBT immediately and without conditions," Clinton said.
He said it was regrettable that India had pursued nuclear tests "at a time when most nations are working hard to leave the terror of the nuclear age behind. So in this instance, India is on the wrong side of history."
India has said the developmental tests were necessary because of security concerns in South Asia.
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