Berlin, November 16 (Adnkronos) – A new ‘Doctor Strangelove’ appears on the horizon, with the claim that we should ‘love the bomb’. The 1997 treaty banning nuclear tests has not been ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran, Egypt and the United States, while Russia is withdrawing from the treaty in 2023. So far, compliance with its provisions has not mitigated the possible threat. We heard statements from other countries about a possible rethink in rejecting nuclear weapons. Fears then emerged that we were entering a high-risk path, that we were starting to open some kind of new Pandora’s box”. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, underlined this in Berlin, concluding his speech to the Bundestag on the occasion of the ‘National Day of Mourning’ ceremony, 80 years after the end of the Second World War.
“All this – added the Head of State – is facilitated by the spread, at the international level, of a strong and unequivocal language demanding supremacy. This will only lead to suffering and division that annuls treaties, institutions built to correct violence that in our national society we consider evil and strongly condemn, behavior that some people consider legitimate in international relations.”
