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The Imperative of Disarmament*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Affiliation:
United Nations Environment Programme, P.O. Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.
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You have heard many eloquent arguments in favour of disarmament, but the deliberations of this Assembly have served to show the watching world that in 1982 we are still where we were in 1978—facing the same stark choice of survival or annihilation.

Modern weapons have the deadly capacity not merely to wipe out cities, industries, and even entire populations, but also to destroy the life-giving systems on which we all depend. I am convinced that the need to preserve our shared environment provides the most persuasive argument for nations to stop this dangerously escalating spiral of the arms race.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , Winter 1982 , pp. 272 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1982

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† See our account on pages 169–70 of this year's Summer issue of Environmental Conservation.—Ed.