こんにちわ。京都の藤村という者です。

二年ほど前に私の職場に二ヶ月弱ほど滞在して共同研究をしたインドの科学者の
方から回ってきた、INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE CULTIVATION OF SCIENCEとい
う国立の研究所の（多分有志の）核実験抗議声明です。

彼らは予算的には優遇されているのですがモノ不足が激しく、日本滞在中もＩＣ
やらレンズクリーニングペーパーやら日本ならいつでも手に入るものを、研究所
の仲間から要請された買物リストを片手に集めていたのが印象的でした。

あちこちに転載して頂けると有り難いです。

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Dear Colleague,

          Please read and circulate the following message.

          Thanking you

          Yours Sincerely

          (Kankan Bhattacharyya)

        INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE CULTIVATION OF SCIENCE
                Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India

              "WE WANT A NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE WORLD"

          We are deeply disturbed by  another  round  of  nuclear
explosions, this time dangerously close to our home, in India and
Pakistan. The human civilisation has long been threatened by  the
huge amount  of  nuclear  weapons,  already  stockpiled  by  USA,
Russia, China, UK and France. We now seem to have suddenly thrown
away the commitment of the past successive Indian governments  to
total global N-disarmament and the firm stand not to give  in  to
the arm-twisting tactics of the big five countries  to  sign  the
discriminatory CTBT and NPT. We by no means want  to  ignore  the
achievement of our nuclear scientists  in  the  peaceful  use  of
nuclear research, in medicine and nuclear power plants. But we do
not want to  see  this  programme  as  an  off-shoot  of  a  more
dangerous  pursuit of nuclear  warfare.  Considering  the  meagre
economic resources of India  and  Pakistan  and  the  devastating
effect of N-weapons  on  mankind  and  environment,  we  can  not
support any decision to develop and  stockpile  N-weapons.  While
the people in India and Pakistan are suffering from unemployment,
poverty, water scarcity, lack of education  and  healthcare,  the
two countries are spending tens of thousand crores each  year  on
the defence programme. The overemphasis on defence  research  has
deprived the country of developing many other research frontiers.
We believe  that  nuclear  bombs  can  neither  bring  peace  and
prosperity nor strengthen the security or economy of  a  country.
Soviet Union collapsed, in spite  of  having  the  most  advanced
N-arms, while non-nuclear countries, like Japan and Germany,  are
global  superpowers  due  to  their  progress  in   science   and
technology and viable economic  policies.  Instead  of  competing
with the advanced countries in N-weaponisation we should pay more
attention to strengthen our tottering  economy  and  improve  our
standard of living. We feel it is our solemn duty to  inform  the
public of the hazards of N-weapons.  The  radioactivity  released
during nuclear explosions  to  the  environment  and  underground
water, remains at a dangerous level for a very long time. In both
India and Pakistan, there are villages within 2-3 km of the blast
site which are unnecessarily threatened with radiation hazards.
     For over  50  years  Linus  Pauling  and  many  other  Nobel
laureates cautioned the whole world against  N-weapons.  Pauling,
who received Nobel Prize twice for chemistry and peace, collected
15,000 signatures against N-weapons. In the PUGWASH movement more
than 100 Nobel laureates unitedly protested against all kinds  of
N-weapons. Unfortunately, even after these warnings by  the  best
minds of this century, the N-weapons are plenty in this planet.
          We, urge all peace loving citizens  to  join  hands  to
demand total nuclear disarmament in the whole world  and  condemn
all nuclear tests and  stockpiling  of  nuclear  weapons  by  all
countries, particularly the  big  five  and  not  just  India  or
Pakistan.
 
 

Debashis Mukherjee, J.  K.  Bhattacharyya,  A.  K.  Pal,  M.  De,
Saswati Lahiri, Manju Ray, S. P.  Bhattacharyya,  B.  M.  Mandal,
Kankan Bhattacharyya, B. P. Chatterjee, K.  Nag,  Debjani  Ghosh,
Chitra Basu, S. S. Bhattacharyya, S.  C.  Saha,  S.  Goswami,  S.
Mukherjee, Pradyot Banerjee, Muktimoy Chaudhury, D. Datta, A.  K.
Guha, Ashis De, B. C. Ranu, Subrata Ghosh, A. R. Das, D. S.  Ray,
Arun Nandi, Tanusree Kar, D.N. Nath, A. Ghosh, G.  B.  Talapatra,
U. K. Sinha Mahapatra, R. N. Ghosh, P. R. Bangal, M. S. Maiti, S.
Sinha  Ray,  G.  Sinha  Mahapatra,  Arunima  Chanda,   Alfazuddin
Thander, J. Chowdhury, M. Ghosh, S .K. Banik, A. K.  Das,  K.  S.
Das, C.K. Mandal, Sk. Hannan Mandal, B.  C.  Bag,  P.  Chaudhury,
Sudip Chattopadhyay, A. Misra,  G.  Sanyal,  D.  Jana,  Dipanwita
Guha, A. Barman, M. Ghosh, P. K. Das, S.  Biswas,  A.  K.  Ghosh,
Prabal Sengupta, Sujata Choudhury, Jayati Bhowal,  Swapna  Bagui,
Tanusri Bhattacharyya, Swati Biswas,  Kasturi  Mukherjee,  Sumita
Ghosh,  J.  P.  Ray  Chaudhuri,  Ms.   Swati,   R.   Saha,   A.K.
Chattopadhyay, S. Bhattacharyya, Anita Bandyopadhyay,  S.  Sahoo,
B. Malakar, M. Bhattacharya, A. Som, D. Mandal,  S.  K.  Pal,  A.
Datta, M. Halder, B. Ray,  D.  Chattopadhyay,  T.  Jana,  Sudipta
Chakraborty, A. D. Barman, Sukhen Ghosh, Sasanka  Mandal,  G.  K.
Patra, M. W. Khan, Rupa Mukhopadhyay, Kinkini  Bhattacharyya,  G.
Chaudhuri, S. Kar, J. Sanyal, P. Mondal, D. L. Maji, G.  Pal,  D.
R. Bhowmik, Bidisha Bhowmik, Aparajita Nag,  A.  Chakrabarty,  H.
Pal, G. Mostafa..
 

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