Letters to the Editor

Balance of terror?

After the rape and grievous wounds inflicted upon Iraq, which country is going to become the next victim? Iran or North Korea? Why not Israel?

Why don't UN arms inspectors, NATO experts and IAEA team members visit Israel, make investigation and take necessary action against Israeli nuclear weapons? Many reports say that Israel has produced and stockpiled over two hundred nuclear weapons under the umbrella protection of the US.

In 1981 Israel with US logistic support bombarded and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.

In 2002 the US invaded and occupied Iraq on the pretext that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. But thousands of US, UK troops and their allies, OIA and FBI agents deployed in Iraq have miserably failed to find any WMD during the last two years.

The US is now trying to divert world opinion accusing Iran and North Korea of carrying out nuclear programmes.

What chicanery and buffoonery! The US itself is the mother of atomic bomb. It produced the first atom bombs in 1945, and dropped them in Japan, killing and maiming over half a million people.

Subsequently, the former USSR (now Russia) developed atom bomb in 1949, the UK in 1952, France in 1960, Israel (secretly and not declared) in 1972.

Tit for tat, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Due to fear of atom bombs of the USSR and China, the US did not dare to use her atom bomb during the Korean War (1950-53) and the Vietnam War.

Many people are of the opinion that US President George Bush knew it positively and definitely that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction. If the US and her allies had the slightest doubt that Iraq had in her possession nuclear weapons, they could never take the risk of a war with Iraq.

Might is right. Has it not become necessary for a sovereign and independent state to have an atomic bomb for its own defence and survival from foreign aggression?

The IAEA Chief Mohammad EI Baradi says that now at least 40 countries have the know-how to produce nuclear arms.

Is the world moving towards a great man-made calamity, catastrophe? Annihilation of mankind?

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