As we flip through the pages of history, we stand witness to the gory wars, where every nation played an active role in the armament race and secretly piled up weapons against the other nation. This history seems to have repeated in the Korean Peninsula, at a time when the world is still reeling in the tight clutches of a global pandemic.

The notable personalities namely, Moon Jae-In, South Korean President, and North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un, had lengthy discussions and made a final promise to put an end to war, through complete denuclearization along with the promise of a completely nuclear free Korean Peninsula. With such an act of commitment, we are sure to see a new era of peace, that is sure to blossom in these hinterlands.

Greed for acquiring power and territories has been engulfing human beings since times immemorial. But when any nation stands victorious, with so-called prized possessions of mere territorial expansions, a mother's lap becomes empty, a woman loses her husband, a sister loses her brother, a daughter loses her father - all for the sake of this organized butchery. The situation worsens in case of nuclear warfare where the challenge gets carried out to generations after generations. Though permanency in World Peace can win a benefit of doubt each time, disarmament of nuclear weapons can be the one and only solution to it.


- Srijani Purkait


Denuclearization means reducing or eliminating the storage of nuclear weapons. Time and again we come across this word and have at least once discussed the impact that these weapons would create if a war would happen. Yet, the world leaders seem to turn a blind eye towards it. Nuclear weapons have been seen as a mark of superiority by the countries, considering how they flaunt about it when a war comes into picture. But, what about the consequences?

As quoted by Nikita Khrushchev “The survivors of a nuclear war would envy the dead”; A nuclear world war would not only lead to the wipe out of almost the entire human race, the ones who survive would face the consequences of it for generations. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the best example of what a nuclear bomb can do to a city. Practically speaking, Peace would be a better option than total wipe out of human race.

So why race towards hoarding these death bombs? Is winning a war and show of so-called power bigger than life? Ask yourself these questions and then answer the biggest question that lays behind this article, “Wouldn’t denuclearization instill world peace?”


- Zahabiya Dalal