Let me paint for you a scenario of what life would be like in our school a few years from now.Imagine a nuclear shelter beneath this very auditorium and the morning assembly being replaced by mandatory evacuation training. Can you imagine yourself in such a situation - hounded by fear, haunted by an uncertain future? This scenario is part of our distant future if we do not begin with mandatory disarmament.
Are the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima not enough to convince us on the perils of nuclear disarmament? That fateful day on August 1945, the Americans redifined our views on nuclear weaponary and its devastating capability. Never before had mankind seen something created with such destructive power. Nuclear weaponary in the hands of rogue nations and scientist pose a threat to the welfare of all people.
Millions of people in large numbers of countries live in fear of land mines and explosives. Conventional weapons have killed millions of individuals over the years, encouraged violence and destabilised economic development and increased poverty.
Should we be spending on arms rather than people?
Modern arms are light, easy to carry, require little maintaince and training making very office worker, every shopkeeper, every school child a potential soldier.
So you may ask why not voluntary disarmament? Unless mandated there would always be a debate on which country should begin first due to mutaul distress between governments, counties, etcetra etctra.
I would like to end with a qoute
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Cool stuff :)
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