The tsunami havoc and the atomic catastrophe it triggered in Japan has not lessened Dr Singh’s zeal to persist with his mission to tether India’s future to nuclear power. In fact, the prime minister told parliament this week a familiar half-truth: the existing nuclear units were safe and a fresh safety review would be carried out to further reassure the nation that India was invincible to a Japan-like disaster. Japan’s tragedy is poignant because it genuinely believed in the safety of nuclear power while shunning its military use. This cannot be said of India or Pakistan. Both seem happy to flaunt their nuclear biceps and, as is the logic of nuclear weapons, not without being also prepared to sacrifice millions of unsuspecting lives. As a matter of fact, the accident which occurred in Japan was foisted by nature on a non-militarist state that had overlooked the danger of still playing with nature.