in ambassador schafer who most of dinow who has deep experience in india recently remarked that the u.s. relationship has been largely bilateral sometimes regional but rarely global. our two countries want to change that and take our relationship global. nonproliferation of marks the one area that you would have thought possible even a few years ago. earlier this year president obama announced in a prague his vision of a nuclear-free world. also earlier this year in this special envoy told an audience at the brookings him that the civil nuclear initiative has enabled india to look quote, proactively and not defensively at a new global agenda for nuclear non proliferation and nuclear disarmament. we have already seen signs of this new outlook. in recent weeks in csi is iaea additional protocol, foreign minister chris not condemned the north korean nuclear tests and india became only the third state to completely destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. climate change is another thorny issue where there is room to make progress. the united states views india as a partner in confronting the

>> dinow, i would think we would want this to be a dynamic process as we learn more putting in place the programs and policies and then learning from experience, but i think the bill lays out a very sensible and doable approached. >> okay, and you also talk about the huge task of hiring and training inspectors. fis understand correctly, you are asking for more flexibility in the legislation to be able to do that. are you asking for general flexibility or would it transitional timetable with a time certain in the legislation work just as well? >> i think we have to recognize that this would be an enormous scale up of activity and that we need the time frame to enable us to do it right to recruit the people and train the people to work with industry to develop the systems that work. and so we like flexibility in that way and we would like more general flexibility so that we can learn as we go in terms of the the inspection schedule and some of the requirements in that regard. >> okay, my last question is kind of a general one. i don't think it was asked before but even as late as yeste