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Disarmament means the act of reducing or depriving arms i.e. weaponry.
The United Nations has worked for nuclear disarmament ever since its first resolution in 1946 entitled "The Establishment of a Commission to Deal with the Problems Raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy" .In 1954, India became the first country to seek complete ban on nuclear testing.There are three types of disarmament-:General,Quantitative and Qualitative,and Total.General disarmament allows nations to keep minimum necessary police force,Quantitative and Qualitative involves overall reduction and abolition of only certain types of armaments and Total disarmament calls for complete elimination of armaments.
