CASE AGAINST THE BOMB '55 afford. The progressive forces in India have a special responsibility to help the democratic elements in Pakistan to assert their rights. The democratic movement in India has a firmer foundation. It works in a relatively free environment. It is in a better position to expose the manoeuvring of the reactionary forces in India to mount a frenzy against Pakistan to divert militant movement against the Government's right-wing policies. The Left and democratic forces in India have to expose the imperialist game to destabilise the condition in the Indo-Pak sub-continent. They should extend the hand of cooperation to the democratic forces in Pakistan by dissociating themselves clearly from the machinations of the reactionary forces entrenched firstly, within the Congress(I) and secondly, among some of the opposition parties in India. An unequivocal policy for peaceful coexistence and renouncing the path of nuclear weapons by them can strengthen the progressive forces in Pakistan and prevent the sub-continent from turning into a hotbed for imperialist games. DEB KUMAR BOSE Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. 1 Blackett, PM^-Fear, War and the Bomb: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. New York and Toronto, 1949. The British edition of the book is more widely known as Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energey. 2 Bickett (1949), 136-137 3 Zhukov, G.-Reminiscences and Reflections. Vol. 2, Progress Publishers, Moscow 1985, 449. 4 Zhukov (1985), 449. 5 .Rotblat.J. - "Why I Stopped Work on the Bomb", Reproduced from The Times, London in The Statesman^ 24-7-1985 6 Jungk, Robert-Brighter than a Thousand Suns-Pengum Books, 1970. 160-165. For extracts from the publication relevant to current discussion, see Bose (10). 7 Bower, T.- "An Anniversary Puzzle'. Why did the Allies Let Hitler Live ?" Reproduced from The Times, London in The Statesman, 25-3-1985. 8 News item. The Statesman 4-1-1979 9 Blackett (1949). 81-82. 10 Bose, D K -"Indians Options in Nuclear World", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XX, No. 38. September 21, 1985, 1594-1596.