CAN WE SAVE THE PLANET FROM THE HOLOCAUST OF THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?

Copyright © Prof. Dr. D. Swaminadhan.

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Contents

Dedication

Messages

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: Growth Of World Population

Chapter 2: First World War

Chapter 3: The League Of Nations

Chapter 4: The Second World War

Chapter 5: The United Nations (U.N.)

Chapter 6: The Cold War

Chapter 7: Nonaligned Movement

Chapter 8: Contemporary World Situation

Chapter 9: World’s Nuclear Weapons Development Status

Chapter 10: Missiles

Chapter 11: The Anti-Nuclear Movement

Chapter 12: Doomsday Clock And Preventing Nuclear /WMD Holocaust

Chapter 13: Disarmament

Chapter 14: Value Education And Human Values

Chapter 15: Global Appeals For World Peace And Security

Chapter 16: The World Government - Structure

Chapter 17: The World Government Constitution

References

Annexure I

Annexure II

Annexure III

Annexure IV

About the Book

About the Author

Dedication

The Author dedicates his Book to all those

Victims of the Nuclear Holocaust and the

Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Planet.

Messages

Prof. Swaminadhan states the case for nuclear disarmament very clearly. I welcome and fully support the WIF’s setting up of the Global Network for Peace, Disarmament, and Development (GNET-PEDAD) as a new international movement to bring about disarmament, establish peace and bring about changes in development and the environment.

-Nicholas Hagger.

Foreword

Dr Swaminadhan deserves our thanks for his book, just now published, Can We Save The Planet From A Holocaust Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction? (2021)

In this important study, Dr Swaminadhan turns both a laser-like eye attending to fine detail and also a wide eagle eye looking at the biggest possible picture in these regards. Like a wise physician, like Dhanvantari himself, Dr Swaminadhan knows that in healing work, both are needed, attention to fine detail, but also a general overview of the patients health and wellbeing and all surround contextual factors.

In matters of detail, Swaminadhan gives us a useful history of how we got here. How on earth did mankind come to assemble such a large stockpile of nuclear weapons and think this was a good idea?

He takes us back to the First World War and rightly traces the current global predicament to the mistakes and efforts that were then entered into.

He doesn’t know this, but according to research by two contemporary Scottish historians, Gerry Docherty & Jim Macgregor, in their study Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War (Mainstream Publishing, 2013) that conflict was a deliberately manufactured hyper-conflict in which UK & Imperial elite financial institutions and pressure groups forced the UK government of the day to make the conflict far worse than it needed to be. In fact, the Kaiser was putting out peace feelers to the Russian Tsar and what had begun through the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, may well have remained a small local dispute, with no major international involvement, had it not been for a cabal of secret influencers behind the scenes, largely run from London, who wanted to blow this quarrel up out of all proportions, and to ensure it erupted into a genuine world war. Why would they do this? They were governed by British notions of Imperial prestige and wanted to teach Germany a lesson as an upstart nation that had only coming into being recently, and was wanting to challenge British for rulership of the seas. This threatened Britain’s entire Imperial chain of command, especially the sea routes to India, so the decision was taken to prevent peace from breaking out at all costs, and to ensure that a real world war broke out. If this is true it is as shocking as it is depressing, and set against the contemporary debate about the desire of Scotland to leave the UK, now setting out once more on its pseudo imperial ego project called Brexit, it is important that we reflect on this matter together and subject the claims made by these Scottish historical scholars to the widest possible forensic scrutiny. Indian historians ought to read both Swaminadhan’s work and also that by McGregor and Docherty. It might be that the seeds of the current nuclear weapons aggression lie back here in this original deception.

After considering World War One Swaminadhan next turns his attention to the attempts to build peace that came afterwards, namely the work of the league of nations. For many great intellectuals at the time this represented the best great hope for mankind and Albert Einstein, Henri Bergson, Sir Sarvappeli Radhakrishnan, Sir Gilbert Murray, Béla Bartók, Thomas Mann, Salvador de Madariaga and Paul Valéry, were just some of the luminaries who joined the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, which tried to bring together the greatest minds of the day to figure out a way to prevent future wars. The most energetic director of the committee was Henri Bonnet (1888-1978) who was a consummate Intellectual-Bureaucrat, very much like Dr Swaminadhan himself, a left-leaning French patriot, friend of De Gaulle and many of the greatest French thinkers of the day, who escaped to the USA from France when the Nazis took over, and who later served as French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954. This Committee was very much a forerunner to the World Intellectual Forum, which Dr Swaminadhan chairs and which is active in exactly the same type of work, in trying to figure out how to prevent wars, global melt-down, nuclear holocaust and other threats to continued human flourishing that we are facing now in the 3rd millennium.

Neither Germany nor the USSR nor Fascist Italy, nor the USA would work with the League of Nations or the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and as popular nationalist movements took power in Italy and Germany, and as the Soviet Union went its own dogmatic way entirely, the nations of the world rushed into reamarmament programmes. For Germany this was a question of national prestige since having been defeated in what they regarded as a humiliating and inconclusive manner, Germany felt it had the moral duty to rearm and reassert its right to great power status, and in the person of Hitler they found the right mouthpiece for this ambition. Stalin likewise in Russia felt that Socialism in one country required the building up of a strong people’s military force to counter all the threats that opposed communism worldwide. He clamped down with an iron fist, killed Trotsky (a genuine intellectual) in a sort of universal-paranoid criminal state in which intellectuals, and dissidents were shot and killed in their millions. At least Lenin had only exiled intellectuals. Now Stalin had them shot. Thinking became dangerous once more.

We all know what happened next. World War two was even more costly than world war one, and millions died on all sides, including in the Nazi engineered holocausts of the European mainland where their racist eugenics theories were implemented in full with the attempted mass slaughter of all the Jews of Europe. Intellectuals had of course spoken up against the extremism of both right and left camps, but by and large had been ignored. It was only later that figures like Hannah Arendt, in her Origins of Totalitarianism, or George Orwell, in 1984, were read as prophets who had predicted the moral dislocation of the common body politics of humanity and the imposition of official state barbarism as an unavoidable reality of power.

Next Dr Swaminadhan turns his attention to the history of the founding of the United Nations, a body set up in a flurry of end of the war hopes and dreams, initiated by President Roosevelt, a left-centrist President who cared for the common man, and who with his wife Eleanor Roosevelt had managed to win the large centre group of American public opinion to their cause, much as Joe Biden has managed to do in 2021. Indeed Roosevelt had much in common with Biden, and it is a matter of interest that Biden and his wife Dr Jill Biden chose to get married in the little chapel at the UN headquarters building in New York, signalling to those who know that they are indeed truly internationalist in orientation, as was Roosevelt. It would have been nice to see also mention of UNESCO in this chapter, since this was the formal body set up by the UN and based in Paris, dedicated to bringing together scientists, cultural leaders, writers, poets, academics, teachers and intellectuals, in a combined bid to end war, and to make a nuclear war unthinkable for humanity. Set up as a specialised agency of the UN it has been doing its best ever since and deserves our support and praise. It is also a historical fact that the work built up by the earlier International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, were taken over by UNESCO in legal point of succession and is now based in Paris at the UNESCO headquarters. Thus UNESCO is trying to succeed where the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation formerly failed. This time Germany and Russia and Italy are active members, but the USA and UK have left on and off, and Israel likewise is like a cat an open door, will she or wont she come in from the cold? This latter indecision is over the fact that UNESCO has recognised Palestine as a member state, and this of course annoys those Israeli’s who refuse to realise that sooner or later they are going to have to make peace together, or perish together. It was for this reason I set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East in 2007 after visiting Israel and Palestine. So the politics of UNESCO’s unfoldment would make for a fascinating chapter in and of itself and perhaps in a second edition of this work Dr. Swaminadhan might furnish it for us. Certainly India has been a proud and active member of UNESCO ever since its foundation in November 1945 and many great Indian intellectuals have served as Ambassadors to UNESCO or otherwise getting involved with its projects both in India and worldwide.

Next Swaminadhan considers the course of the cold war, which is a subject of immense complexity that I devoted some years of my life to studying for my own PhD in intellectual history – but in a nutshell we all know what happened: it was a stupid waste of resources physical and intellectual, as the great minds of both Communist and Capitalist camps set their minds on defeating each other (by fair means or foul) rather than find ways of achieving common discourse and common agendas and goals. Swaminadhan gives a good summary. Far better a warm peace than a cold war, any time.

The next landmark that Swaminadhan looks at is the fascinating history of the non-aligned movement. This was the brain child of many forces and thinkers who were disgruntled with the over-simplistic polarisation of the world into capitalist and communist camps: surely there must be a middle way? Surely one ought to be able to celebrate the creativity, the entrepreneurship, the technical delivery the skills of capitalism, yet at the same time insist on social solidarity, social safety systems, and social democracy as providing