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We'll also pursue our discussions on proliferation and disarmament, bearing in mind that today is the first day of meeting of the International Non-proliferation and Disarmament
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And the other 'peace' organisation, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, is currently led by someone who thinks the development of nuclear weapons by Iran should not be a matter for the UN Security Council.
How News Is Made aka The Mysterious Missing Christians Laban 2006
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Disarmament is not a policy by itself; it is part of the general policy of the UN.
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Disarmament is technically - I repeat I - far simpler than any other method of national defense.
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Disarmament is a subject of special significance to Canada.
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We wonder why we get nowhere in Disarmament conferences, yet, if you will but read records of the investigation you will find there the stories of the letters written by delegates to the Disarmament Conferences to the munition makers, telling them not to worry about what that Conference is going to do.
Munitions 1934
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If Disarmament is the solution of the distressing problem we are all so anxious to solve, no one can say that we have not given a lead in the right and proper use of armed forces in peace time and in this connection I would like to remind you of an episode which won for us the unstinted and outspoken gratitude of the Nationals of every civilized country -- I refer to the timely arrival of British troops and ships at Shanghai when a vast cosmopolitan colony was in immediate and desperate danger, and it was thanks to the arrival of a little British fleet and a division of British soldiers and the staunch, hearty, stiff-lipped Admiral, Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt that what might have been a terrible disaster was peacefully solved.
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Disarmament is impossible because it’s not possible to “arm” a country for cyberwarfare in a traditional sense any more than it’s possible to arm society to conduct a war on drugs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Going Wobbly on Russia’s Cybersecurity Disarmament Proposal? 2010
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And at the end of last year, two former Foreign Ministers – one from Australia and one from Japan – at Australia's and Japan's instigation, launched the Report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, which is a Report which we see as being a valuable and positive contribution in the run-up to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference later this year.
Transcript: CTBTO (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation) press conference 2010
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In the years since, such as in a recent piece for his website, New Paradigms Forum, titled Disarmament Versus Nonproliferation?
Russ Wellen: Are Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Once Joined at the Hip, Headed for Divorce? Russ Wellen 2010
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