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74 ferocious weapons of destruction which will destory the whole stock of humau civilization and bring about utter extinction of the entire human race Late John F. Kennedy, the ex-President of America on June 10th, 1963 speaking on "Peace for all men and for all time' had said. "A single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all of the allied air forces in the Second world war." He had observed, “No nation in the history of battle every suffered more than the Russians suffered in the course of the second world war. At least 20 millions lost their lives. Coutless homes and farms were burnt or sacked. A third of the nation's territory, including nearly two-thirds of its industrial base was turned into a wasteland."
The pacifist thinker late Bertrand Russell informs, "A bomb can now be manufactured which will be 25000 times as powerful as that which destroyed Hiroshima."
At this critical jnncture the waroing of historian Toynbee conveyed in New Delhi is valuable, "In the hurricane of annihilating material power provided by atomic energy the practice of non violence is pecessary for mankind to save it from self destruction."
(Hindustan Times 25-2-60). The need of the hour is that people should sincerely try to imbibe the spirit of Ahimsa as enunciated in the sacred Jain literature. When Gandhiji's path was darkened by unsurmountable difficulties, C. F. Andrews says, "He very often