Finding the way to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear technology and to advance nuclear disarmament.

 



In 1945, two nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing these famous nuclear clouds above the cities. Since then, the world has worked towards the elimination of theseweapons of mass destruction. The Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) was signed in the midst of the Cold War. It is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, as well as to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear technology and to advance nuclear disarmament. Though modernization of such weapons has continued, and their destructive power has increased, the world has significantly reduced its nuclear arsenals since the Cold War. Nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation and arms control is made up of a web of multilateral, regional, and bilateral treaties and agreements.




"Good Defeats Evil" is a bronze sculpture by Soviet/Russian painter and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli (1934 – ) who is well-known for large structures. It depicts an allegorical St. George, astride a rearing horse, driving his lance through a dragon. The dragon is not the mythological beast of early Christian tradition, but rather represents the vanquishing of nuclear war through a historic treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States. Created as a monument to peace, the sculpture is composed of parts of actual United States and Soviet missiles. Accordingly, the dragon is shown lying amid actual fragments of these weapons, the broken pieces of Soviet SS-20 and U.S. Pershing missiles. The sculpture was unveiled on the 5th of October 1990 on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the United Nations. It commemorates the 1987 signing of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Nuclear Missiles (INF Treaty) and stands outside the UN Headquarters as a vivid symbol of nuclear arms control and disarmament.

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