EVERY nation is spending lots and lots of, money in
maintaining an army in furnishing it with up-to-date weapons, and in producing
highly powerful and destructive armaments such as the Inter-Continental
Ballistic Missile (known shortly as I.C.B.M.) and the atom bomb. No nation,
however, seems to feel safe, for other nations are also progressing in this
destructive ace for armaments.
Today the world is divided into two sharp camps or
power blocs. One is the U.S.S.R and other communist countries, and the other
comprising the U.S.A., Great Britain, France and their allies. The U.S.S.R and
the U.S.A have reached special heights of efficiency in the design and
manufacture of powerful weapons. And. though the two nations were allies in
World War, they are now mutually suspicious of each other.
The United Nations, which was brought into
existence on the ashes of the League of Nations, is seriously concerned with
this problem. If by the slightest chance, any nation provokes another to war,
there is no knowing what many happen in the next few hours. Atom bombs and l.C.B.M
may fly in all directions wreaking havoc on whole world affecting not only
belligerent nations but also non- belligerent countries. So disarmament is
talked of. Mutual suspicion clouds the vision of the powerful nations: though
they are aware of the annihilating effects of a war, they are nevertheless nowhere
near reaching an agreed and practical solution.
In between these two power blocs, exist another
group of nations--- which may be called the neutral block. The leader of those
nations, alive to the annihilator effects of a global war, are bending their
energies and efforts to bring the heads of the two blocs together, in a bid to be non-aligned to
discuss this problem. Today strained relations between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A
impede such a meeting. But the entire world hopes that, in a short time, the
forces of reason and goodwill and will assert themselves and bring about a
lasting solution to the problem of disarmament.