What is "disarmament"

Usage examples of "disarmament".

The day before, President Roosevelt had sent a ringing message to the chiefs of state of forty-four nations outlining the plans and hopes of the United States for disarmament and peace and calling for the abolition of all offensive weapons - bombers, tanks and mobile heavy artillery.

Iraq had met all of the conditions in the resolution, whereas most states interpreted the same paragraph to mean that the sanctions would be lifted when Iraq had fulfilled only the terms of the disarmament clauses.

Roberts having in the meanwhile seized Bloemfontein, communication was restored by railway between the forces, and Clements was despatched to Phillipolis, Fauresmith, and the other towns in the south-west to receive the submission of the inhabitants and to enforce their disarmament.

UNSCOM Chairman Ekeus and other inspectors began saying privately that they believed that disarmament of Iraq was effectively complete.

However, there is a big difference between Saddam being willing to accept inspectors when there is a gun to his head and actually complying with disarmament.

How it played the key role in deciphering messages to and from the delegates to the post-World War I disarmament talks, thus giving the American delegation the inside track.

Security Council, attempted to honor that commitment by imposing a demanding set of disarmament and political requirements on Iraq backed by draconian sanctions and the implicit threat of additional military operations.

Containment was enshrined in the various resolutions of the Security Council that demanded Iraqi disarmament, imposed the sanctions to impel Iraqi compliance, insisted that Iraq cease repressing its people, prevented it from threatening Kuwait, and justified the no-fly zones.

Washington agreed to suspend the remaining economic sanctions if Iraq made significant progress on key remaining disarmament tasks--those tasks and the nature of the progress to be determined by a new inspection team named the U.

On the same day, I named an old friend from the McGovern days, John Holum, to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and used the occasion to emphasize my nonproliferation agenda: ratification of the convention controlling chemical weapons, achieving a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, achieving permanent extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which expired in 1995, and fully funding the Nunn-Lugar program to secure and destroy Russian nuclear weapons and material.

The chairman of what was both the world's largest arms manufacturer and the country's top military contractor could not be allowed a personal relationship with a man who was both the Senate's most outspoken maverick and the planet's best-known disarmament advocate.

In the case of UNSCOM, the College of Commissioners--a group of twenty made up of either disarmament experts or political flunkies as chosen by their governments--had only an advisory role and even then were fairly disruptive.

In the case of UNSCOM, the College of Commissioners—a group of twenty made up of either disarmament experts or political flunkies as chosen by their governments—had only an advisory role and even then were fairly disruptive.

It was because of directives from above that, after the University riots, the Commissioner of Virgil reluctantly ordered the razing of the Memorial and the total disarmament of the great Landfolk houses—two actions which he felt had brought on more woes, including the lunacy in Hesperia.

Multilateral talks on the more difficult stages of disarmament, down to a minimum nuclear deterrent, were making progress.