that our world is still riven by conflicts and faces the unprecedented danger of a nuclear war. It is a hard fact that the arms race, particularly in its nuclear aspects, runs counter to efforts to achieve a further relaxation of international tensions based on peaceful coexistence and trust between States and to develop broad international co-operation and understanding. The continued and ever-intensifying arms race has caused us all grave concern, and almost every time that someone talks about the arms race the question is raised: who is responsible for it? To my delegation, an impartial answer requires ~at a distinction be made between those who have initiated and promoted the arms race and those upon whom the arms race has been imposed. The realities of the past 40 years have unequivocally made clear that the United States has always been in the forefront of the development of new nuclear-weapon systems, which the international community has long been striving to get rid of. It was the first to manufacture the atomic bomb and actually to use it in 1945. It forged ahead in the nuclear-arms race in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s by building strategic bombers , nuclear-powered submarines, multiple independently-targetable re-entry vehicles and, in this decade, space weapons. JVM/5 A/C.l/ 4 0/PV .11 14-15 (Mr. Pham Ngac, VietNam) Within a very short period after the Second World War, it set up four military alliances and a network of military bases on all continents to deploy both its nuclear and conventional forces throu9hout the world. BG/6 A/C.l/40/PV.ll 16 (Mr. Pham Ngac, Viet Nam} Furthermore, those horrible weapon systems have always been accompanied by dangerous military doctrines -for example, "massive retaliation", "limited nuclear war", "strategic defence initiative" and "star wars•. All those dangerous 
**Analysis**
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