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NOTHING emerges more clearly from the debate in the House of Lords on May 29 on the control of German war inventions and that on May 30 on the future of directed missiles than the imperative need for a national policy for defence. Without such a policy clearly formulated and rightly aligned with those of the other members of the United Nations organization, there can be no security or world order, or effective prosecution of reconstruction plans. Unless satisfactory answers are forthcoming to some of these difficult questions and an honest effort made to achieve adequate solutions, all our plans for building a world free from fear and want and squalor may fall to the ground. The world organization adumbrated by the United Nations Charter, the control of Germany, and national defence and international security are all interlocked. The allocation of resources, both of materials and of man-power, between the different purposes must be carefully balanced, or mankind, may be plunged once more into an armament race and a world war from which there may be no recovery.
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Science and National Defence. Nature 156, 29–31 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156029a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156029a0