DISARMAMENT
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 9 Jun 2009
Honoré Daumier drew a cartoon of a disarmament conference. A group of generals and presidents stood in front of a door called disarmament, and complimented one another, "You go first."
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In Geneva, business negotiators rent a hotel room. UN functionaries rent an apartment. And disarmament negotiators buy a house.
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When someone argued, "We have had nuclear weapons for 50 years and nothing has happened," Helen Caldicott said, "A man was jumping down from the top of a 100-story sky-scraper, and on the 50th floor, someone looked out the window and asked him while he was passing by, ‘How is it going?’ to which he replied, ‘Fine so far!’"
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