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[Full Text] Letter from Admiral Ramdas to Shinzo Abe and Modi, against the India-Japan Nuke Deal December 6, 2015 Admiral.L.Ramdas (retd) PVSM AVSM VrC VSM Village Bhaimala, Former Chief of the Naval Staff Magsaysay Award for Peace Maharashtra Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar To, Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan Subject: Proposed Indo-Japanese Nuclear Supply Agreement Your Excellencies, LETTER FROM ADMIRAL RAMDAS TO PM JAPAN & INDIA 05 dec 2015-page-001It is indeed very surprising that Japan, as the only country which has experienced the horrors of nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and later the disastrous accident at the Fukushima power plant and its downstream effects, should now be promoting the sale of nuclear power plants to India. The fault no doubt lies with both the buyer and the seller, but in this case we feel a greater responsibility for promoting such a sale lies at the door of Japan. I do not need to explain the horrors of a nuclear explosion or an accidental burn out -‐ for this is now common knowledge. I am of the firm belief that if humanity is to survive, both nuclear power and nuclear weapons should be abolished for all time to come. As a former Indian military person, and one who headed the Indian Navy, I firmly believe that nuclear weapons are politically counter productive, economically a disaster, militarily inefficient, ethically and morally totally indefensible. Nuclear power likewise has a huge risk potential which as has been experienced by the USA at Three Mile Island, by the erstwhile Soviet Union at Chernobyl, and most recently by Japan at Fukushima. The current proposal to conclude an Indo-‐Japanese Nuclear supply agreement, to supply nuclear power plants to India, is fraught with danger and potential consequences which are unimaginable. I would therefore strongly urge both Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that India and Japan should not conclude the planned nuclear supply agreement. Regards, Admiral L. Ramdas -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
