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In the aftermath of World War I, the major nations embarked upon large programmes of new battleships. The United States had declared an aim to produce a navy "second to none". In the face of recession and the fact that the largest navies were the British and Japanese, who had a mutual defence treaty, that ambition was seen to be unrealistic, even ruinous. The United States initiated a treaty to limit the largest ships in each of the signatory nations. The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories. It was signed by representatives of the United States of America, the British Empire, Japan, France, and Italy in Washington, DC, on February 6, 1922.
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Arthur L. Kellermann is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine. Kellermann is best known for his landmark research on the epidemiology of firearm related injuries and deaths, which has generated a firestorm of criticism from firearm rights activists. In 1993, Kellermann was the lead investigator in a case-control study that looked at all homicides occurring in the victims' homes in Cleveland, Memphis, and Seattle, over five years. The results showed that such homicides occurred nearly three times more often in homes where guns were kept than in otherwise comparable control homes where there was no gun.
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The Last Gun (1959): directed by Steven Spielberg. This was Spielberg’s very first film, and shows the talent of an imaginative kid (Spielberg) playing around with a camera belonging to his father, and acting out scenes of a war nature, but it was done more for the fun of it than anything else.
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90% of all firearm related homicides in Australia are committed with unregistered firearms (since the 1995 & 1996 regulations).
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Gun control by Ian Hunter
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Handgun Control is an of Ranch told: "No gun”.
Nuclear non-proliferation is an of Alone, infernal corruption.
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24 September 1996: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes and was opened for signature in New York, when it was signed by 71 States, including five of the seven then nuclear-capable states. (India and Pakistan, though not nuclear weapons states as defined by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), did not sign.) It has not yet entered into force and cannot do so until 11 more nations ratify it.
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis)
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace. (Bernard Baruch)
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight. (George Bernard Shaw)
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Longest-Running Environmental Campaign: Greenpeace has been campaigning against nuclear testing since it was founded in 1971, with the first protest directed against tests off the Alaskan coast. The environmental organization continues campaigning worldwide on the nuclear issue.
Biggest Environmental Petition: Greenpeace collected 8.5 million signatures worldwide in 1995 to call upon President Jacques Chirac to end French nuclear testing in Mururoa. The tests finally ceased in January 1996. The petition was delivered at the French government's expense and post office unions were contacted in advance to warn them of the expected mail overload.
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