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India defiled, Indians diminished | Frontline, The Hindu – PRAFUL BIDWAI The BJP has inflicted nuclear humiliation upon the nation, while compromising India’s security and jeopardising popular welfare. MAY 11, 1998, will go down as one of the darkest days in India’s history, comparable to December 6, 1992. The threeRead More

WEAPONS of mass destruction have a peculiar fascination. They can generate a warm glow of strength and power carefully divorced from the brutality and genocide on which the potency of the weapons depend. The great epics – from Iliad and Ramayana to Kalev ala and Nibelungenlied – provide thrilling accounts of the might of special weapons, which not only are powerful in themselves, but also greatly empower their possessors. As India, along with Pakistan, goes down the route of cultivating nuclear weapons, the imagined radiance of perceived power is hard to miss.

On the anniversary of India’s May 11-13 1998 nuclear tests, the Coalition For Nuclear Disarmament And Peace(CNDP) reiterates its resolve to struggle for a nuclear weapons-free South Asia and world.