1.   Nuclear programs are a threat to regional and world peace.

2.   U.N. member countries delivered a strong rebuke to both countries for persisting with nuclear testing programs.

3.   Also appearing before the Senate panel, John Deutch, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, said Iraq had not abandoned its nuclear program, either.

4.   America had few or no spies in India reporting on the nuclear program.

5.   Analysts have long criticized the American nuclear program for having too many companies, each running too few plants to get any economies of scale or skill.

6.   And given the nature of Pakistani society, the very notion of a defector from the nuclear program was unlikely, Perkovich said.

7.   And its nuclear program made it an international outcast, only deepening economic distress.

8.   Assessments about foreign nuclear programs have always been highly contentious, largely because of the sensitive diplomatic and political issues they raise.

9.   Beverly Cook, director of space nuclear programs for the Department of Energy, scoffs at such claims.

10.   Both sides could also cap their nuclear programs by joining in a verifiable fissile material ban.