Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

War sells!

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?