| Abstrakt: |
This article focuses on disarmament. U.S. President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union speech in January 2002, described Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an axis of evil and accused them of seeking to acquire and develop weapons of mass destruction. In doing so, the mere alleged acquisition, without any stated intent, of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems was designated a threat to local, regional and global stability and security, given the terror and fear they invoked. The similarity of international security facing the U.S., at the onset of the twenty-first century, to that faced by the European Great Powers at the end of the nineteenth-century, is the process of arms control and disarmament as a political objective. |
