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Washington, May 14: Powerful us Senators today called for not only freezing, but capping and rolling back India8217;s nuclear program. But in a significant stand, senior Clinton administration officials said it was not a feasible proposition and 8220;in the near term what is achievable is to ban all nuclear testing and ban additional production of unsafeguarded fissile material that can be used to make bombs8221;. The administration8217;s stand, coming amid a firestorm of criticism against India for conducting the tests, revealed that the basic US non-proliferation goals, which accepts India and Pakistan as threshold nuclear powers, had not changed because of the crisis.
