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Would nuclear disarmament lead to world peace??
I have no opinion on nuclear disarmament. I think it is a pernicious idea that has essentially been used to prevent peace for the past 70 years. It was first proposed by Einstein and Bohr, who were both refugees from Nazi Germany.
Until the end of World War II, nuclear weapons were not thought to be possible. The idea came about in 1945-1946 after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The real argument was not nuclear disarmament, but the US insistence that Germany should be disarmed. The use of atomic bombs on Japan had nothing to do with it.
Germany was in no position to resist the combined forces of the United States, Britain and France. The United States had over a million troops stationed in Europe at that time.
The policy of nuclear disarmament was not really a response to the atomic bomb, but a way of preventing Germany from becoming strong again. If there had been no nuclear weapons, the US would have invaded and occupied Germany anyway.
The people who proposed nuclear disarmament should have thought about that. It is a pernicious and destructive idea.