Atomic race posing threat to world peace: Speaker

SPEAKER IN the UP Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey said here that the race for atomic weapons was posing threat to world peace. He said that developing countries should focus on education and food as well as developing infrastructure for sustainable progress, instead of wasting money and man power to achieve atomic and nuclear deterrents.

SPEAKER IN the UP Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey said here that the race for atomic weapons was posing threat to world peace. He said that developing countries should focus on education and food as well as developing infrastructure for sustainable progress, instead of wasting money and man power to achieve atomic and nuclear deterrents.

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He was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar ‘National nuclear deterrent and its role in national security’, organised at St Andrew’s Inter College here. Pandey said the US was trying to impose its own conditions on other countries in the name of non-proliferation.

Today the world needed sensitive human beings instead of bombs, he said and added Third World countries were in favour of weaponless countries. A conductive atmosphere should be developed in this direction, he added.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof GN Tiwari underlined that the budget on atomic research should be curtailed. He said there was no possibility of any war between India, Pakistan and China in the near future. Instead there was a need to build a bloc of these countries. Prof P Mohan from Pondichery University said weapons race was only to divert people’s attention.

Principal JK Lal presided over the seminar while Dr Jairaj Amin from JNU, Prof Gopal Krishna, Dr Sudhir Kumar Singh, Dr Indradev Mishra, Dr RP Yadav, Dr Shivshanker and many others also delivered their views.