War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.