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The Hindu calls for total nuclear weapons ban
The Story in Brief
The Hindu argues that the rules-based world order is collapsing under pressure from the United States and other powerful countries. Its article says military power is overriding moral concerns over attacks affecting people in West Asia and Ukraine, as well as the poorer countries facing wider consequences.
The article points to Hiroshima, where a US nuclear weapon killed 1.4 lakh people on August 6, 1945. The Genbaku Dome has been a memorial since 1996. It says countries and the order’s self-described gatekeepers appear unable or unwilling to resist dangerous ideologies, and calls for a total ban on nuclear weapons.
The Indian Opinion
Claims that one country alone has destroyed the global order simplify a crisis involving military power, weak enforcement and competing state interests. Yet dismissing nuclear disarmament as idealism is also lazy. Hiroshima’s death toll shows the cost of these weapons, while any ban would need verification and compliance from nuclear-armed states. The test is practical: can governments agree on enforceable limits, inspections and consequences?
Source: thehindu.com
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