The “historic visit” of U.S. President Barack Obama to Hiroshima (“ >The Hiroshima touchstone ”, June 1) only demonstrates the opportunistic policies of the U.S. What peace and disarmament are we talking about? On one front it presents us a face of wanting to express solidarity with Japan and pledge nuclear disarmament while on the other it talks about the right to maintain “first use of nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances” and modernising its nuclear arsenal. The U.S is only trying to use Japan as a defence against a rising China and a sabre-rattling North Korea. India should not be swayed by the U.S. as it always changes its tune.
Raunak Agarwal,
Kanpur
