{"id":2439,"date":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/disarmament\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/06\/disarmament\/","title":{"rendered":"DISARMAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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."<\/p>\n

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In Geneva, business negotiators rent a hotel room.  UN functionaries rent an apartment.  And disarmament negotiators buy a house.<\/p>\n

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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!’"<\/p>\n

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