New call for UN-administered world disarmament.THE NEW AMERICAN has frequently described the origins and significance of State Department Document 7277, entitled Freedom From War: The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Program for General and Complete Disarmament Reductions of armed forces and armaments by all states to levels required for internal security and for an international peace force. Connotation is "total disarmament" by all states. in a Peaceful World. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in in a 1961 address to the UN General Assembly, Freedom From War outlined a three-stage plan to disarm all nations--including our own--while simultaneously building up the UN's "peacekeeping" capacity. That astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. propos al was reiterated the following year in Blueprint for the Peace Race, which gave birth to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament One of the major efforts to preserve international peace and security in the twenty-first century has been to control or limit the number of weapons and the ways in which weapons can be used. Two different means to achieve this goal have been disarmament and arms control. Agency--the federal agency entrusted with the task of working toward universal, UN-supervised disarmament. In an April 24 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times op-ed column, veteran U.S. arms control negotiator Max Kampelman (a former Marxist) reinvigorated the call for universal, UN-supervised nuclear disarmament. Invoking the pleasant fantasy of "a peaceful, civilized world free of weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or ," Kampelman wrote that "our government [should] embrace the goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. To this end, President Bush should consult with our allies, appear before the United Nations General Assembly and call for a resolution embracing the objective of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. He should make clear that we are prepared to eliminate our nuclear weapons if the Security Council develops an effective regime to guarantee total conformity with a universal commitment to eliminate all nuclear arms and reaffirm the existing conventions covering chemical and biological weapons." This would require that the UN have sufficient power to verify compliance and to impose "severe penalties for cheating," he allows--implicitly acknowledging that the world body would retain overwhelming military force. Although it's impossible at present to imagine the public rallying behind Kampelman's proposal, it's possible to imagine the public mood changing dramatically in the event of an act of nuclear terrorism against the United States or an allied country. |
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