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Any instrument which restrains the horizontal and vertical spread of nuclear weapons should be viewed as desirable. From the point of view of mankind as a whole, this statement is as trivial as the negation of war as a means of settling conflicts. The latter principle, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, is manifestly held in disregard. It remains an attainable but distant goal.
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Freier, S. (1990). Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones. In: Fry, M.P., Keatinge, P., Rotblat, J. (eds) Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75105-9_9
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