This is my research paper on disarmament. It contains breifly all the important steps taken in the feild of disarmament till recently.
Introduction
Prof. Lincoln P. Bloomfield aptly remarked that, "A visitor from another, more advanced planet would find many paradoxes on earth, but surely the most extraordinary would be the fantastic destructive potential of nuclear weapons which contrasts starkly with the primitive and near impotent institutions of global peacekeeping. He might marvel that a breed capable of producing the wealth for a 185 billion armory of lethal devices let alone the technology for killing several hundred in a single exchange of weapons had not produced a workable international order capable of regulating such apocalyptic man-made power. .... Also no such International Order exists today and the prospects are not encouraging that it will exist within the foreseeable future. Dr. Hambro has also rightly remarked "The armament race comes as close to collective insanity as anything in the history of mankind and it is, to my mind, surprising that public opinion is willing to take it."
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United Nations exhibit by OWI at Rockefeller Plaza...
A Nansen passport. Issued by the League of Nations...Disarmament has become a more urgent and complicated issue with the rapid development of nuclear weapons capable of mass destruction. Since the explosion of the first atomic bombs in 1945, the previous contention that armaments races were economically inexpedient and led inevitably to war was replaced by the argument that the future use of nuclear weapons in quantity threatened the continued existence of civilization itself. It was understood that war was unnecessary and nations of the world also understood the urgent need to part with these deadly weapons. "The League of Nations" writes Philip Noel Baker, "is the first attempt in history to furnish the international society of nations with the permanent and organic system of international political institutions. This attempt was an outcome...