WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?

Eliminate all Weapons of Mass Death

SYNOPSIS:

    Weapons of mass death are any means of killing human beings
that kill more than one person each time someone decides to kill.
Civilizing the planet Earth will begin first with the elimination
of the most obvious weapons of mass death
all nuclear bombs and missiles.

    Nuclear disarmament might be the easiest to achieve first
since the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb
have no role in making our planet peaceful.

    The next steps would be achieved as the World Peace Force expands
and creates a meaningful presence everywhere on Earth.
With the proof of good enforcement of the ban on weapons of mass death,
peace-loving people everywhere on Earth
will cooperate to eliminate weapons that can kill many people at a time.

OUTLINE:

1.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS JUST COMING INTO BEING,
     NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE ELIMINATED FIRST.

2.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS HALF ITS FINAL SIZE,
     OTHER KINDS OF WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH CAN BE ELIMINATED.

3.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS FULL SIZE,
     ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH WILL BE DESTROYED.

4.  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL ALSO DISARM
     WHEN ITS MILITARY FORCES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED.

5.  THE EARTH WILL BE AT PEACE WHEN ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH ARE GONE.

6.  THE WORLD PEACE FORCE WILL BRING A CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.




WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?

Eliminate all Weapons of Mass Death

by James Leonard Park

1.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS JUST COMING INTO BEING,
     NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE ELIMINATED FIRST.


    Alongside the emergence of the first members of the World Peace Force,
all the nations of the Earth will see the foolishness of keeping
nuclear weapons at the ready.
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was a mad policy when it was first proposed.
It was based on the assumption that there were only two nuclear powers.
So when incoming missiles were detected,
the nation being attacked would fire off all of its missiles
before they could be destroyed by the first strike.
Thus each country would be completely destroyed
by the nuclear weapons let loose by the other!

    Since those foolish days, the waiting nuclear missiles have at least
been pulled back from their programming of automatic destruction.
When each waiting missile had its destination already set in its guidance system,
it was too easy to have an accidental release of a nuclear exchange
or for some crazy individual to set off the nuclear holocaust.

    As the peoples of the Earth turn their faces toward peace,
those nations that still have nuclear weapons
will dismantle them and use the atomic power
contained with those bombs and missiles to produce electricity,
which can be used for many beneficial purposes.

    The first members of the World Peace Force will witness this first disarmament.
The news media of the world will also be allowed to observe
the dismantling of the weapons that could have killed millions of people.
There will be no further need to keep nuclear secrets from 'the enemy'.
Everyone in the world will be concerned to see
that nuclear weapons do not fall into the hands of anyone who might use them.
Also, the means of delivering nuclear weapons
will be turned to peaceful purposes.
Perhaps some of the former missiles will launch communications satellites.




2.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS HALF ITS FINAL SIZE,
     OTHER KINDS OF WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH CAN BE ELIMINATED.


    It will take the world many decades to accept the World Peace Force.
But the WPF will gain credibility by every action it takes
to make the planet Earth a safer place to live.
Some nations will resist giving up their nuclear programs.
They will attempt to keep the nuclear weapons they have already created.
And they might try to create additional missiles and bombs in secret.

    But there will always be some peace-loving people who know about such programs.
And they will have easy access to telling the World Peace Force
about such continuing secret programs.
And as more such prohibited programs are discovered and dismantled,
the people who know about nuclear programs elsewhere
will feel safer having no weapons of mass death anywhere on the Earth.

    Officers of the World Peace Force will have the authority and the means
to investigate all reports of hidden weapons.
Year by year, the media will tell the people of the world
whenever the World Peace Force has discovered and dismantled
yet another cache of weapons that could have been used to kill human beings.




3.  WHEN THE WORLD PEACE FORCE IS FULL SIZE,
     ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH WILL BE DESTROYED.


    Once there are one million men and women in the uniform of the WPF
and when there are no other military forces on the Earth,
there will be complete disarmament of every individual, group, & nation.
Weapons that can kill more than one victim with one decision
will have been eliminated from the Earth.

    And wherever these are small group of people
attempting once again to create weapons of mass death,
they will be discovered, captured, & imprisoned.
And their cache of weapons will be dismantled or destroyed.

    The World Peace Force itself will have no need for weapons of mass death,
since the criminals they will seek are always individuals,
even if those individuals have many followers protecting them.
The one million men and woman of the World Peace Force
will have weapons that can kill those who possess unauthorized weapons.
The World Peace Force will prefer to capture rather than kill
those who violate the peace of the planet Earth,
but they will have the capacity to kill world-criminals when necessary.




4.  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL ALSO DISARM
     WHEN ITS MILITARY FORCES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED.


    When this essay was first drafted,
the United States of America was attempting to be world policeman.
U.S. military forces were still in Iraq and Afghanistan,
attempting to impose some law-and-order with a Western twist.

    And the USA was also talking tough
about keeping other nations from creating nuclear weapons.
Of course, this was a hypocritical position to maintain.
The claim was that some nations can be trusted with nuclear weapons
but other nations should never have them.

    But when the World Peace Force exists to enforce world peace,
even the USA will be able to give up its nuclear arsenal.
And then peace-loving people anywhere in the world
will support all efforts of the World Peace Force
to disarm any nations, groups, or individuals
who cling to their weapons of mass death.

    Perhaps a generation of weapons-advocates in the United States
will have to pass from the scene
before the new majority of peace-loving people
will consent to dismantling all United States military forces.




5.  THE EARTH WILL BE AT PEACE
     WHEN ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DEATH ARE GONE.


    Nuclear weapons are the most obvious means of mass death.
But there are hundred of other ways to kill people collectively.
When the planet Earth is disarmed,
the World Peace Force will be everywhere,
always watching for weapons that might kill many people at once.

    Explosives are useful for many constructive human purposes,
such as extracting minerals from the earth.
Thus, explosives cannot be prohibited.
But they will have to be closely monitored
to prevent their diversion to destroy human lives.
Whenever any peace-loving person knows about any such diversion,
he or she can call the World Peace Force,
which will be nearby and ready to imprison any weapons violators.

    We also know that farm chemicals such as fertilizer can be used for bombs.
The World Peace Force will not be able to monitor all farm chemicals.
But whenever any peace-loving person suspects such a diversion,
he or she can alert the World Peace Force
so that the possible destructive use of fertilizer can be investigated.

    Biological weapons were also developed
during the years when the nations of the Earth did not trust each other
and when there was no World Peace Force
to enforce the ban on weapons of mass death.
But wherever on Earth biological weapons are being developed,
some peace-loving people will be aware of it.
And they will eventually tell the World Peace Force.
The WPF will capture and imprison any people creating biological weapons.
And if they cannot be captured alive, they will have to be killed.

    Alongside biological weapons, we should also mention chemical weapons.
Human beings can be killed in masses by being exposed to deadly chemicals.
Whenever anyone knows of any testing or stockpiling of chemical weapons,
he or she will inform the nearest office of the World Peace Force,
which will investigate and take action as necessary.
Many chemicals have legitimate human uses,
so these will have to be monitored
to make sure that they are not diverted into harmful uses.

    When warfare has been made unnecessary by the World Peace Force,
there will be no further need for warplanes and warships.
All standing armies, navies, air-forces, etc.
will be disbanded because the World Peace Force of one million men and women
stands ready to protect anyone threatened by destruction.
The military budget will disappear from each nation of the Earth.
All military bases and installations owned by individual nations will be closed.
(Some of these can be converted for the World Peace Force itself.)

    Machine guns of all makes and descriptions would also be prohibited
because they can kill more than one person with a single pull of the trigger.
Such an elimination would also help fight regular crime everywhere on the Earth:
Criminals would no longer have repeating weapons of any kind.
Such weapons would not be manufactured or maintained anywhere on Earth.
Neither would bullets be available for such weapons.
Within a few decades after such a ban went into effect,
the last machine guns would have become harmless museum pieces.

    As illustrated by the examples above,
it is not difficult to describe what might be used as a weapon of mass death.
The only weapons that cannot be prohibited (because it would be impractical)
would be weapons such as sticks and stones that can kill people one at a time.
Each murder is achieved by one series of human actions.
And if this murderer wants to murder more than one person,
he or she will have to repeat the actions to kill each person.

    The World Peace Force will not exist to prevent murder.
This will always remain the responsibility of local police forces.
And because of the occasional need to use deadly force,
the local police will possess guns that can kill people one by one.
But local police will also have non-lethal means of incapacitating criminals.
Criminals can be rendered unconscious by simple means,
just as wild animals can be tranquilized without killing them.
And when the murderers and other criminals are unconscious,
they can be taken into custody without using deadly force.




6.  THE WORLD PEACE FORCE WILL BRING A CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.


    Once the peoples of the Earth have enjoyed several decades of peace
because all who would commit war have been imprisoned or killed,
the peaceful-assumption will prevail in the minds of all people.
Children will grow up in a world at peace.
They will only know war as a crime of the past.
And they will know that the officers of the World Peace Force
they see from time to time are there to preserve the peace of the Earth.

    With this change of world-conscousness,
there will be enough peace-loving people everywhere
to report even their own family members
when they start to re-create weapons of mass death.

    The best response to danger will be either calling the local police for protection
or calling the World Peace Force when weapons of mass death are involved.
In some cases, both kinds of police should be called.
The members of the World Peace Force can take away the weapons of mass death
and make sure that any capacities for creating more such weapons are destroyed.
And the local police can take away the criminals
who were getting ready to use prohibited weapons for their unlawful purposes.

    Just as local law-breaking will not be tolerated,
so the world-wide law against weapons of mass death will be enforced.
And even when local law-enforcement might break down,
the World Peace Force will be there to enforce disarmament.



Created July 29, 2009; Revised 9-3-2009; 3-20-2011; 8-13-2011; 11-5-2011; 2-1-2012; 2-3-2013


AUTHOR:

    James Park is an independent existential philosopher
and advocate of world peace.
This essay is part of a series on the World Peace Force.
The complete list is published under the title:
"World Peace Force: Early Thinking".

    The most closely related on-line essays are:

       World Without WarD

       The Meaning of Complete Disarmament .  D

       Blessed Are the Peacemakers .  D

       World Peace Force100 Years for Transition

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