Ideology of Peace
A JOURNEY TOWARDS PEACE
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deadly menace. All minds sought a formula for the
bilateral destruction of nuclear weapons. But this
kind of bilateralism proved to be impractical.
By the grace of God, after long contemplation, I
found the answer to this question, in a universal
teaching of religion. This teaching was based on the
principle of unilateral ethics, the application of
which requires one superpower to start destroying
its pile of nuclear weapons without insisting that it
be done on a bilateral basis. Such unilateral action
on its part would create a compulsive atmosphere
for the other party, which would then feel that it
had no option but to follow the same course, for it
would then lose the justification for keeping its
nuclear arsenal.
I first made this suggestion of following a unilateral
policy at the international meeting organized by the
Nuclear Disarmament Forum held July 26-30, 2001,
in Kandersteg (Switzerland).
This idea was greatly appreciated by Mr. Andre
Bykov, the Chairman of the Nuclear Disarmament
Forum. I later compiled it in the form of a booklet
and published it. At the next meeting of the Forum
