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January 29, 2007 15:40 IST Last Updated: January 29, 2007 16:18
IST  Quoting the Mahatma in the aftermath of Hiroshima,
"...violence cannot be destroyed by counter-violence... Mankind
has to get out of violence only through non-violence," Congress
president Sonia Gandhi said, "Since then nuclear weapons have
become even more of a terrifying reality. She was speaking at an
international conference in New Delhi to commemorate the
anniversary of the satyagraha movement.  In this context, she
pointed that the world's nuclear weapon states had more than
adequate atomic arsenal to destroy humanity many times over.
"And it is not just clear weapons. We also confront the spectre
of chemical and biological weapons."  "An ey