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“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”第26回佳作What Are the Prospects for Eliminating NuclearWeapons, and What Role Can the United NationsPlay?Rahul Sudhakar Mane---(Nagasaki survivors at a refugee centre)This was the year 1945. The time experienced atrocious causalities anddestruction due to nuclear weapons resulting in the culmination of the Second WorldWar.“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that wouldbe like the splendor of the mighty one.”and“Now I am become Death, the destroyerof worlds.”These are the exclamatory words of Robert Oppenheimer immediatelyafter first experimental atomic bomb explosion which took place under his leadershipas scientific director of the Manhattan Project. Ten years later in 1955 due to graveurgency for building consensus around nuclear disarmament, history witnessed birthof Russell-Einstein Manifesto. This urge, supported by eminent scientists of the ageappealed to the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, thattheir purpose cannot be furthered by a world war and consequently to find peacefulmeans for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them. This manifestocame along with deep realization that the abolition of war will demand distastefullimitations of national sovereignty.Today the efforts are being made towards bifurcating policy of proliferationfrom that of disarmament. 1DuringthelastmeetingoftheUNSecurityCouncil1 Eldridge Colby (2008); Nuclear Abolition: A Dangerous Illusion, Elsevier Limited on behalf of Foreign PolicyResearch Institute815