ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the questions from the perspective of a planetary citizen, yet with a focus on the United States role in global peacemaking. The perspectives and attitudes that prevent the creation of a more desirable security system are learned-they are not innate or determined by human nature. Arms that once may have solved security problems threaten our security. The most intense recent negotiations to control the arms race have been the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union. The balance of political forces in the United States and several other states, where there is already dissatisfaction with wasteful military spending, turns against the perpetuation of the arms buildup. The cuts proposed would enable the United States to retain a nuclear deterrent capable of assured destruction of the Soviet Union until after full Soviet participation.
