THE world can only handle so many guns, bombs and missiles. Beyond the
minimum needed to keep the peace, building up larger stockpiles of destructive
new weapons is a really bad idea. Even unused, they cost a fortune and make
potential adversaries edgy, leading to a spiralling arms race. It must also be
better for the world’s governments to agree on limiting weapons—subject to
real verification—than have one or two countries wielding big sticks to
keep everyone else in line.
So Â鶹´«Ã½, like many other commentators, has watched in horror as the
new US administration mounts an…
