The Third World War

Is Disarmament Possible?

Disarmament—as ideal or delusion, beacon or will-o’-the-wisp—has been luring thinkers and statesmen of the West ever since the sixteenth century. In making disarmament proposals today, Khrushchev, Eisenhower and Norman Cousins could trace their ideological lineage back to Thomas More, Erasmus and Hugo Grotius. Sir Norman Angell, whose The Great Illusion (1908) became the international disarmament classic, has proved how in the twentieth century you can found a successful lifetime career on beating the disarmament drums. Alger Hiss first made his mark in Washington by exposing “the merchants of death” for the Nye Committee.

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Is Disarmament Possible?

Disarmament—as ideal or delusion, beacon or will-o’-the-wisp—has been luring thinkers and statesmen of the West ever since the sixteenth century. In making disarmament proposals today, Khrushchev, Eisenhower and Norman Cousins could trace their ideological lineage back to Thomas More, Erasmus and Hugo Grotius. Sir Norman Angell, whose The Great Illusion (1908) became the international disarmament classic, has proved how in the twentieth century you can found a successful lifetime career on beating the disarmament drums. Alger Hiss first made his mark in Washington by exposing “the merchants of death” for the Nye Committee.