"ACCEPT" says the 'Father'.
JPR:
I do not know about the extent of precaution taken by the government with respect to the villagers which is said to be some 500 in number.I believe they have been evacuated before the tests.However it is also reported that some of them are showing symptoms of radiation sickness.
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Source: Indian Express
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Accept India as N-power, says maker of H-bomb
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WASHINGTON, May 23: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, has urged the world community to accept India as a nuclear weapon power instead of complaining about nuclear tests by New Delhi. Stating that more than half of the world population now has atomic or hydrogen weapons, the Hungary-born teller said yesterday that it is better to accept the fact and ''deal with the reality of nuclear proliferation.''
''It now seems the governments that are responsible for roughly half the population of the world already have nuclear explosives,'' he said. Teller, who is known for his strong opinion, said it would do no good to threaten reprisals or impose sanctions against India.
''We should start thinking not in terms of what we wish, but in terms of what is reality,'' said the 90-year-old physicist.
Teller, who fled from Germany during the Second World War, worked on the Manhattan Project, the secret programme that developed atomic bombs for the United States. After the war, teller pressed the case for a continued strong national defence, persuading President Harry Truman of the need for the far more powerful hydrogen bomb. |
