Ett brev har sänts till Pakistans Premiärminister!

Your excellency,

On behalf of Swedish Scientists and Engineers for Nuclear Disarmament, I
urge you to refrain from having a nuclear test performed by Pakistan.
Please listen to the voices of those in your own country who realise
that a nuclear test can only harm Pakistan’s long-term interests.

A Pakistani nuclear blast would be another step towards a nuclear arms
race in the Indian-Chinese-Pakistani region and a wave of proliferation
which may reach beyond the borders of these countries. Nuclear threats
lead to strategies of first-strike, plans for retaliatory attacks and
schemes for launch on warning, which may cause nuclear war by mistake.
Such a war in some of the world’s most densely populated areas would
inflict unparalleled human suffering and damage to civilisation.

In the 1960-ies, the Swedish government decided not to develop nuclear
weapons, even if that had been feasible. At the time there was also a
perceived threat from the neighbouring Soviet Union. The decision was
based on ethical grounds as well as on a conclusion that development and
maintenance of a nuclear weapons’ program would be so expensive that no
other significant defences could be kept in operation. That would have
left Sweden without flexibility in responding to military aggression and
thus led to an immediate escalation of any conflict to nuclear strikes.
A similar analysis might apply to the present situation in your country,
where build-up of nuclear forces would compete for resources with other
government expenditure - military as well as civilian.

Stefan Bjornson
Swedish Scientists and Engineers for Nuclear Disarmament

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