The leaders of nuclear weapon states have not heeded these warnings. If nuclear weapons are relied upon for defense, sooner or later they will be used, by accident or by design. The fact that we have had these weapons in our midst for some fifty years provides no assurance that they will not be used in the future. There is a way out of this dilemma. Man invented nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons threaten the future of humanity.
Hence, it is a highly sensible goal for humanity to seek to abolish these weapons. The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. The international community has recognized global land mine proliferation as a pressing humanitarian crisis. In some 68 nations, fields, deserts, forests, roads, and waterways are littered with an estimated 110 million mines.