The February 20 edition of The Hindu, India's leading daily newspaper, reports that a group of six senior Fellows of the distinguished World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) have urged India to take the lead in ridding the world of nuclear weapons "in its own interest as well as in the interest of humanity."
» Read The Hindu article (pdf)
The group sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, asserting that nuclear weapons pose an existential risk to India. The letter's annex, based on a lecture delivered by GSI President Jonathan Granoff at the recent conference of WAAS and the Centre for Air Power Studies, calls for "a gathering of likeminded states and leading civil society organizations to begin a preparatory process for the universal, non-discriminatory, legally verifiable ban on nuclear weapons."
» Read the letter to Prime Minister Singh and Mrs. Gandhi
For further background on India's position on the subject of nuclear disarmament, see the presentation by Prime Minister Singh at the 2008 conference commemorating the Rajiv Gandhi Plan. Read also the presentation made at that conference by PNND Council Member Mani Shankar Aiyar, Member of the Indian parliament, former advisor to Prime Minister Gandhi.
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