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They find a stone statue of a pharaoh at Luxor. The inscriptions are indecipherable, the archaeologists at a loss as to who it is. The statue is brought to Cairo and cleaned, but still the experts are baffled. At last a secret policeman asks if he can see it. He is taken to the room, he goes in and locks the door. An hour later he comes out pulling his coat on and wiping the sweat from his forehead.

“It's okay”, he says. "He confessed."

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Arms Control and Disarmament attempts through treaties, proclamations, convention, and tacit agreement to limit the destructiveness of warfare by controlling the acquisition and use of weapons and military technology.

Historically, war appears as an integral part of human affairs. In three millennia of recorded history, less than 300 years have been free of armed conflict: yet people have always recognised the folly, waste, brutality, and inhumanity of warfare and have continually attempted to limit its devastation and the spread of increasingly destructive weapons.

One of the earliest formal attempts to limit the scope of war was organised by the Amphictyonic League, a quasi-religious alliance of most of the Greek tribes, formed before the 7th century BC. League members were pledged to restrain their actions in war against other members; thus, for example, they were barred from cutting a besieged city’s water supply.

The league was empowered to impose sanctions on violating members, including lines and punitive expeditions, and could require its members to provide troops and funds for this purpose. Another early example of an arms control and disarmament treaty was the Rome-Carthage Treaty of Peace (202 BC), which ended the Second Punic War; it required the destruction of all but ten warships, and limited the possession of armaments in general. It also banned Carthage's training and possession of war-fighting elephants.

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