themselves to naintaining, extending and improving the non-proliferation 169ime. The Third Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferationof Nuclear weapons, to be held in 1985, offers such an opportunity. 13. There is no objective of greater irnportance than the prevention of nuclear war. As President Reagan said on 9 May 1982 the United States believes nthat it will be possible to reduce the risks of war by removing the instabilities that now exist and by disnantling the nuclear nenace". The first steps in this process are to seek effective and verifiable agreements for the control of nuclear arms at substantiatly reduced levels, and to reduce the possibilities of nisinterpretation or misunderstanding between nuclear-armed adversaries. But, untiL these goals are reached, the United States must continue to rely on the strategy of nuclear deterrence. VIET NAM loriginal: Englishl [].3 JanuarY 19851 1. Nuclear weapons occupy a distinctive place among modern armaments and have an unprecedented destructive porrrer. Diverse researches conducted in many countries have proved that the conseguences of the use of the available nuclear arsenals would be imnediate, total and global, leading to global. annihiLation. The recent findings on a "nuclear winter" further enforce the view that the disastrous effects brougtrt about by a nuclear war are unforeseeable. 2. Therefore, shortly after the end of the Second World War the guestion concerning the prevention of a nuclear hrar was raised ard bas ever since become the paratnount goal for forces of peace in their struggle for disarmament, peace and international security. The very first resolution adopted by the United Nations in 1946 (General Assembly resolution I (I) ) called for "the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons". Since then, the United Nations has also adopt,ed a number of irnportant documents, such as the Declaration on the Prevention
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The text appears to be a diplomatic document or a speech discussing the importance of preventing nuclear war and promoting disarmament. The language used is formal and diplomatic, and the text references international organizations such as the United Nations and specific events like the Third Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear weapons. The text also quotes a world leader, President Reagan, and references scientific research on the effects of nuclear war.

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