I have been involved in IPPNW since the first year of my medical school. Today, I am the current Regional Student representative of IPPNW South Asia and the National Student Representative of PSR Nepal, the Nepalese affiliate of IPPNW. Before I joined IPPNW, the discussions about nuclear weapons seemed quite fancy to me and at times I valued all those talks as intellectual luxury. But slowly, I came to realize the importance of this agenda and that this issue needs to be addressed by people from all walks of life. Being medical students and future doctors, we can utilize our special position of respect in our society to fight against the legacy of nuclear weapons.

Luckily, Nepal can never possess any form of nuclear weapons, mainly due to the cost associated with them. But it is indeed true that the hazards of nuclear weapons are not limited to politically created boundaries. Regardless of our country's possession of nukes, I feel responsible to make a contribution from the medical community to help abolish them. As Nepalese, we have too often witnessed the high nuclear tension between our nieghbors India and Pakistan, to believe that a nuclear standoff would leave us unscathed.