To the growing list of reasons why India is not worthy of nuclear assistance, we add the prevalent ideology of Indian politics: Gandhism. It is to Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India, that all Indian political parties swear their allegiance. Despite being popularly promoted as championing peace and equality, Gandhi in reality laid the ideological foundations for India's religiously motivated nuclear ambitions.

U.S. Army Col. G.B. Singh recently highlighted Gandhi's most shocking beliefs in his book, Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity (Prometheus Books; 2004). Salient points follow:

During a prayer speech on June 16, 1947, only a few weeks prior to British abdication of India, Gandhi said, " If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British ."

In August 1947, following Indian independence and during nationwide Gandhi-inspired racial and ethnic genocides, Gandhi blessed the Indian Army to forcibly annex the states of Kashmir, Hyderabad, and Junagarh. Kashmir still bleeds, and remains a potential catalyst for nuclear war betweeen Pakistan and India.

After Prime Minister Nehru's first official visit to the U.S. in October 1949, then-President Truman concluded to various congressmen: "Nehru practices color prejudice in reverse - he hates white people."

In 1961, under Nehru, India continued Gandhi's legacy of military adventurism by seizing three Portuguese colonies: Goa, Diu, and Daman. The Sino-Indian War was also inspired by Gandhian tactics of fomenting racial and ethnic hatred while attempting to annex neighbors.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked Gandhian philosophy when she justified her bloody actions against the tiny Sikh population by saying, "Mahatma Gandhi, in his time, accepted that necessity."

The fervent devotion to Gandhism of modern India has led and will continue to lead to many disasters. That Gandhian state has already murdered over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, over 200,000 Christians since 1947, and over 85,000 Muslims since 1988. Inspired by virulent racism, various Hindu fundamentalists continue to match Gandhi's dedication to Hindu extremism.

Weapons of mass destruction are the weapons of racial hatred in India.

Internationally, we see a rise in the politics of hate, and we must exercise extreme caution in dealings with India. Let us not condemn South Asia or potential millions of minorities to a dangerous future by offering an extremist ideology sophisticated nuclear technology.

In closing, we recall the words of Sir H. Twynam, the governor of the Central Provinces and Berar in British India, whose experiences with Gandhi led him to say, " Since 1920, Gandhi has been the Hitler of Indian Politics ."

The proposed legislation would allow India, which still politics in the manner of the Indian Hitler, to have eight unregulated nuclear reactors, which could potentially boost India's annual nuclear bomb production by up to six times.