Love Is The Measure Of Life; Only

The Five Original Nuclear Weapon States I Mentioned - U.s., Britain, France, China, And Russia - Under The Npt Have Committed To The Achievement Of The Elimination Of Their Nuclear Arsenals Through Good Faith Negotiations Of Nuclear Disarmament - That's Article Six Of The Treaty.

There Is An International Treaty Framework For This. It's The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (npt). Most Countries In The World Are Members Of The Treaty.

How Many Thorns Of Human Nature - Hard, Sharp, Lifeless Protuberances That Tear And Wound Us, Narrow Prejudices, Bristling Conceits That Repel And Disgust Us - Are Arrested Developments, Calcified Tendencies, Buds Of Promise That Should Have Lifted A Branch Up Into The Sunny Day With Fruit; And Flowers To Delight The Heart Of Men, But Now All Grown Hard, Petrified, For Want Of Culture And A Congenial Soil And Climate.

Somewhat By Historical Happenstance The Five Permanent Members Of The Un Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, And China - Also Were The Original Five Countries To Have Nuclear Weapons.

One Summer Day, While I Was Walking Along The Country Road On The Farm Where I Was Born, A Section Of The Stone Wall Opposite Me, And Not More Than Three Or Four Yards Distant, Suddenly Fell Down. Amid The General Stillness And Immobility About Me The Effect Was Quite Startling. ... It Was The Sudden Summing Up Of Half A Century Or More Of Atomic Changes In The Material Of The Wall. A Grain Or Two Of Sand Yielded To The Pressure Of Long Years, And Gravity Did The Rest.