Nuclear weapons - Common threat to both Pakistan & India's existence

Backpacking extensively across Pakistan has helped me develop a knack for looking at the bigger picture and there is nothing that poses a bigger threat to our very existence than nuclear weapons. Pakistan and India today are two of the most hostile nuclear weapon states and the possibility of the next Nagasaki being Lahore or New Delhi is substantially high. Nuclear weapons recognize no national boundary and there is no possible way of using them without destroying everything we hold dear.

The movement against nuclear weapons is gaining traction as President Obama makes history as the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima, at the end of this month. We must seize this opportunity to raise the profile of this issue in our schools and communities and lend our voice to the global community taking a stand for our future. Is it not a crime to put the lives of billions in the hands of a couple of people who fail to realise what horrors they might be unleashing? It is now high time we conclude that global zero is the only fail safe option we have for our survival as a species.

The probability of a nuclear accident can only be zero when there are zero nuclear weapons. As young activists with Global Zero, our hard work focuses on engaging the community to discuss and chart a way out of this nuclear quagmire. It is time we join those calling on the US and Russia to stand down their weapons from high alert, so that another Hiroshima may never happen again.