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  2. Disarmament means the physical removal of the means of combat from ex-belligerents (weapons, ammunition, etc.). Demobilization means the disbanding of armed groups. Reintegration means the process of reintegrating former combatants into civilian society, reducing the number of people immediately ready to engage in armed combat.

  3. United Nations Disarmament Commission - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Disarmament Commission was first established on 11 January 1952 by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 502 (VI). This commission was put under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Security Council and its mandate included: preparing proposals for a treaty for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments, including the ...

  4. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament

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    The creation of the Panel of Consultants on Disarmament was announced by the State Department on April 28, 1952. [6] The panel was commissioned by Secretary of State Dean Acheson and its purpose was to advise the State Department and other federal agencies regarding U.S. disarmament policy and the U.S. role within the United Nations Disarmament Commission. [7]

  5. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was an independent agency of the United States government that existed from 1961 to 1999. Its mission was to strengthen United States national security by "formulating, advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements."

  6. Disarmament - Wikipedia

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    Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms.

  7. Analysis-Arms race gathers pace as Russia and US plan to ...

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    Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s - a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within years to a historic ...

  8. Civil defense in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [2] This freedom to focus beyond air raid attacks gave United States civil defense a much broader scope than elsewhere. With the end of military conflict, the activities of the Council of National Defense were suspended. [3] Thus, World War I marked the first time that organized civil defense was practised on a large scale in the United States.

  9. Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments

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    During the First World War, the world, particularly Europe, underwent a vast development in arms.During the course of the war, technology surrounding weaponry development and new types of arms emerged: specifically, a focus on not only land equipment and personal but also the navy and the air force, [2] which Borg described as having "considerable weight and influence".