Double Talk: On Weapons of Mass Destruction and Indian Security

Never before in history has so much fear gripped the human mind as today-the fear of nuclear holocaust. Many a book have been written on this nightmarish anxiety, but not enough. Many bookstores are stacked with literature on the horrid possibility of the “moment of annihilation and waste”, but not enough. This book, in the same genre, is a small contribution towards the same pursuit-revealing to the reader through a critical perspective of all the dark corners of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, their destructive potential as against the creative, and in the process cautioning the scientists against the shenanigans of those who entrap them to advance their own morally low motives. In this study, perhaps for the first time, an attempt has been made to present in totality the devastation caused by the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the chemical and biological warfare undertaken in countries of Indochina, Vietnam in particular. There is something more revealing in this book. On the basis of concrete evidence it has established how some of the powers which monopolise weapons of mass destruction have been overtly and covertly helping other states to achieve the capability of fabricating weapons of mass destruction. The evidence given in this book is telling because it is based on hard facts. All in all, this volume is a serious critique on weapons of mass destruction, identifies the key issues and raises questions central to the understanding or the complexities of the global menace.