A
comparative study of the attitude heldbyIndian and Japanese college
students towards nuclear testing and PrOliftratlOn
M. Pande & P.Gupta |
This
is an attempt to study the attitudes held by Indian college students
toward nuclear testings, proliferation and India's nuclear capability
and to compare these attitudes with those held by Japanese college
students studied by Yasumasa Tanaka and Yoko Iwamatsu. The results
show that majority of Indian college students believe that Japan
will be the 6th nation to become nuclear following China, while majority
of ,Japanese students believe that India will be the 6th nation to
become a member. 89% Indian subjects anticipate that India will start
the nuclear arms production within 20 years whereas only 75 % of
the Japanese students believe that Japan will develop nuclear arms
within 20 years. Japanese students also believe that either India
or West Germany would be the 6th nation to become nuclear following
China as India will eventually have to defend itself entirely on
its own against China and Pakistan. Another study shows that the
same group of students give peace the top priority in goals. These
apparently contradictory attitudes might be supplementary. The development
of nuclear weapons is ancillary to the development of nuclear technology
as a whole and it may also act as a deterrent to any future attack
by any country, thus achieving the goal of peace.
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