| | United Nations -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Following the end of the Cold War, there were renewed calls for the UN to become the agency for achieving world peace and co-operation, as several dozen active military conflicts continue to rage around the globe. |
| | The 1945 (Click link for more info and facts about UN Charter) UN Charter envisaged a system of regulation that would ensure "the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources". |
| | The advent of (A weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction) nuclear weapons came only weeks after the signing of the Charter and provided immediate impetus to concepts of arms limitation and (Act of reducing or depriving of arms) disarmament. |
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