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dated February 18,1955: CR flays nuclear tests

Mr. C. Rajagopalachari said in Madras on February 17 that "whatever be the politics of nuclear weapons, the world has some right of protection against the proved and admitted consequences of these tests that America is conducting for her own misconceived security. Her claim that these tests help the security of the free world depends upon the correctness of her foreign policy which is far from proved." Commenting on a statement of Mr. Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in Washington on the radioactive effects of atomic and hydrogen weapons, Mr. Rajagopalachari said: "The statement of Mr. Strauss shows that the `free world' has become a mere technical Americanism. There is but little freedom for the world and there is little power or influence in the world's organisation, judging from what Mr. Strauss has said. Mr. Strauss has given facts and figures explaining that a single hydrogen weapon test explosion last year in the Pacific could contaminate 7,000 square miles, the lowest fatal casualty estimate being five to ten per cent at the edge and 100 per cent for 2,800 square miles in the centre. Yet, Mr. Strauss says that `despite certain elements of risks involved, the U.S. will continue the tests until an effective international plan to eliminate the threat of atomic war was drawn up.' The nuclear weapon will now be used as a sanction against the world as a whole instead of against the Communists. `Come to an agreement or I shall go on exploding,' says Mr. Strauss on behalf of the nuclear weapon."

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