the Stanford Arms Control Group, edited John H. Barton and Lawrence
D. Weiler (Stanford, 1976, cloth & paper). Mention is made of Isaiah 2:4 (8th century B.c.), "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks"; of a disarmament conference of 14 feudal states held in 546 B.C. in Honan, China, ending a 70-year series of wars; of pre-Renaissance "rules of warfare" (includ- ing the Mohammedan ban on poison-ing wells); of Columbia University...