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Charter of Indian Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons
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Name:
The organisation is called Indian Scientists Against
Nuclear Weapons.
Membership:
Membership is open
- to all present and former faculty and research students of
natural science, engineering and medical science
departments in universities,
colleges and other educational institutions anywhere in India;
- scientists, engineers and medical science personnel at all levels,
working or who have worked in research/national laboratories, research
institutes and other scientific organizations and institutions
in the government, public and private sectors in India;
- any other suitable persons as the executive body of the organisation
may decide to admit as members.
Aims and Objectives:
Indian Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons will be a knowledge-based
organisation
- To bring together Indian scientists and technologists
in the task of halting and rolling back the development
of nuclear weapons in South Asia and their abolition throughout
the world.
- To carry on a sustained campaign to prevent
nuclear weaponisation in India and South Asia.
- To inform all sections
of the public, the government, parliament and the media
of the dangers posed by nuclear
weapons as weapons of mass destruction, their induction and deployment
and their potential use,
deliberately or accidentally and to use the scientific knowledge and
expertise of the members towards this end.
- To work with all other organisations in India
that are also against
nuclear weaponisation in South Asia and support
broad coalitions that can strengthen the resistance to nuclear weapons.
- To promote the aim of peaceful co-existence of all peoples and
nations in South Asia and to work with all organizations
from countries neighbouring India, particularly those of fellow
scientists, that share these aims and objectives.
- In addition, in the short-term, to discuss, explore
and suggest such partial measures as may be feasible to promote this
objective, using
in particular direct contacts among the scientific communities of
India and its neighbours.
- To take a principled stand of opposing and exposing the nature,
consequences and implications of the unequal global nuclear bargain,
and all unequal treaties and arrangements in the nuclear field.
- To engage in dialogue and co-operate and
work with all other organisations in India and abroad
that support the genuine global abolition of nuclear weapons and
support and participate in broad coalitions that work
to achieve this aim.
