ABSTRACT
A major predicament of the subject of nuclear arms control is that it is virtually incomprehensible to the layman. In 1932, the League's efforts at arms control finally culminated in the major Disarmament Conference of fifty-nine nations at Geneva. General security was recognized as a prerequisite to disarmament, and sanctions against an aggressor as essential to security, but no nation was prepared to trust in the system to the point of disarming. The metaphoric warm weather is a long way off, but "a minimum of common agreement on fundamentals" is the essence. The finality of the human race and its living space was not within the framework of expectation. Public demand should continue for a bilateral nuclear freeze, ratification of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II, a ban on all nuclear testing, and for a firm renunciation of first strike by an act of Congress.
