One More in the Elite
Machine translation from the original, not yet reviewed by the author.
Original in Spanish
Last Friday, India claimed for itself the status of a State with atomic weapons. They assure us they will never use them to attack another country. Could it be that they plan to use them to plow the fields? Or perhaps they will use them to draw water from underground, or to put an end to the misery of the hundreds of millions of Indians who go to bed hungry.
The Indian prime minister—Vajpayee—said they have done it so as to be able to concentrate on their internal development. A cheap excuse: the Soviet Union is the living example that nuclear development and socioeconomic development do not go hand in hand.
India is a reliquary of Eastern spirituality. How beautiful it would be if India’s scientists concentrated on working for peace, on developing medicine and agriculture, instead of working for war and death!
Vajpayee also says that India now belongs to the elite of states with nuclear weapons. An elite of mass murderers, an elite of rulers incapable of solving the problems of their peoples, an elite of polluters of the atmosphere and the oceans, an elite of wretches.
It is ironic that the United States should sanction India’s nuclear activity, when it has carried out many more nuclear tests and has more bombs stockpiled than India will ever have.
Gorbachev said that in a nuclear war we are all losers. It seems that humanity will not learn this lesson until it is too late.