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Almost exactly one year ago, on 23 May 1995, I was in Görlitz near the German-Polish border, to help dismantle the last German tank to be destroyed in accordance with the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. It was the last weapons system of more than 8,600 German tanks, artillery weapons and combat aircraft. This “incision into tank steel” was part of an unprecedented disarmament process. A total of 50,000 heavy conventional weapons systems between the Atlantic and the Urals have been decommissioned. If lined up, they would form an unbroken chain 350 km long. That is roughly the distance from here to Paris.
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Kinkel, K. (1997). Toward Peace with Ever-Fewer Weapons. In: Schulte, N.T. (eds) Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1276-7_2
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