The Solution to Nuclear
and Non-Nuclear Terrorism
The next day (12th October), I woke up early. After a while, I heard the bells of a church ringing from a distance. In Delhi, one knows that morning has arrived from the call to prayer (adhan) from a mosque for the fajr or early morning prayer, and here it is from the bells of a church.
After the morning prayer, I wrote down some points related to the previous day’s experiences. Later, I got busy with breakfast, meeting people, and so on.
Many programs had been arranged for the day. The first was a roundtable meeting, which began shortly before noon. Around 150 people were present at this meeting. They had come from different parts of the world. It was as if the global mind had come together there. The topic for discussion was ‘Nuclear Terrorism and Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament in the Modern World’.
Mr. Andrey Beykov, who presided over the meeting, delivered his introductory speech. After this, I was invited as the first speaker. The crux of my talk was that nuclear terrorism and non-nuclear terrorism are the same in Nature. Thus, we have to deal with both with the same method, that is, through sustainable disarmament. In the case of nuclear bombs, a successful technology has been discovered to extract the plutonium content from nuclear weapons. Similar is the case with the terrorist. Here also, I said, we have to extract and remove the poisonous militant thinking from the minds of terrorists and divert their energies to constructive activities.
