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Honorable judges, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon: We are seven minutes from doomsday. In February 2002, the doomsday clock, on which midnight represents destruction by nuclear war, was moved two minutes ahead. Now, humankind is only seven minutes from annihilation. I believe world peace is a dream cherished by each and every decent human being. Yet the reality is that there has never been a time in history when we are so vulnerable. The fear of nuclear proliferation-the fear of the spread of weapons of mass destruction to many more countries is on the rise. Nuclear weapons are the enemies of humanity. Their effects transcend time and space, poisoning the earth and its inhabitants for generations to come. A single nuclear bomb can be a thousand times than more devastating than the largest conventional explosives. A single nuclear weapon can ruin tons of soil and vegetation. A single nuclear weapon can destroy an entire city of over 120,000 defenseless civilians and leave about twice the number of people to die in slow agony. Nuclear weapons, with their indiscriminate, massive destructive power, can now destroy the world several times over. Terrified by the catastrophic power of nuclear weapons, I dare not think what the world would be like if this dark and monstrous should fall into wrong hands. If Adolf Hitler’s tyrannical regime had acquired the first functioning nuclear weapon, history would have to be rewritten. And even worse, what if the terrorists go nuclear? What if the perpetrators of the Sept. 11th horrors, whose intent to inflict destruction is unconstrained by human feelings; and whose capacity to inflict is enlarged by technology, could strike again and this time with dirty bombs? If we hesitate in the face the threat, when we should have acted as early as possible, then we are condemned to live under everlasting lament and horror. Hence, the time has come for us to do something. Together in partnership, we should stem the t