Koodankulam activist S P Udayakumar spoke at a press conference in New Delhi yesterday, strongly opposing the attempts to vilify anti-nuclear protests in India. Here is the press release issued by him -
The humanitarian discourse should not be reduced to a discussion about one legal approach or another. It focuses on the weapon itself rather than the symbolism that has been created around nuclear weapons and deterrence. It is thus a discussion that should reinforce momentum towards nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear-armed states are modernizing their arsenals and appear determined to keep sizable numbers of such weapons of mass destruction for the foreseeable future, the SIPRI think-tank said in its annual report on Monday.