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The “good war,” World War II, is still the deadliest of all time, with military deaths estimated at 20 to 25 million (including 5 million deaths of prisoners in captivity), and civilian deaths estimated at 40 to 52 million (including 13 to 20 million from war-related disease and famine).

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In his 1984 book, Arming the Heavens: The Hidden Military Agenda for Space, Prof. Jack Manno concluded that weapons, no matter how advanced, would never bring peace: “Only by eliminating the sources of international tension through cooperation and common development can any kind of national security be achieved in the next century.”

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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?”

—Eve Merriam, U.S. poet and playwright

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