The looming prospect of war has given an upcoming conference on disarmament and demilitarisation a heightened sense of urgency. |
Obviously, in a world where there is no authority to settle international disputes, disarmament gives way to a security dilemma. |
Now we know that disarmament and weapons of mass destruction were a blind designed to hide the true objective of regime change. |
The virtual disarmament by European nations which followed World War One led directly to World War Two. |
The same was true of various attempts made by the League of Nations during the interwar period to achieve world disarmament. |
The condition of its peace settlement in the early 1990s was its disarmament. |