Alva Myrdal, a Swede, worked to assure
Nuclear weapons-free zones in Europe and through
Her work at the U.N. Weapons should be reduced,
Since violence could never to victory lead. To endure,
It was more important not to have nuclear arms
At all than have access and superpower rivalry. Alarm
Must produce concrete disarmament of all, else we’re “hostages
To the superpowers,” an annihilation they’d rather not speak of.*
Nuclear arms are in essence not defensive,
Garcia Robles argued in his creative mission,
But weapons of self-destruction. His comprehensive
Negotiations assured a Latin America and Caribbean
Free of nuclear weapons, and forbade anyone
From undermining the nuclear-free status of the region.**
June Edvenson 