A new nuclear morality

摘要

"Even as the United States dusted off its hands and moved on, elsewhere the radioactive rubble of the dead cities spawned not only a sense of dread, but also an obsessive desire for nuclear weapons. In 1948, while arguing to create India's Department of Atomic Energy, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru toldl Parliament, "I think we must develop [nuclear science] for peaceful purposes." But, he added, "Of course, if we are com- pelled as a nation to use it for other purposes, possibly no pious sentiments of any of us will stop the nation from using it that way." Just three years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those "other purposes" were all too clear."