> Can we be certain that these weapons will never be used? Unfortunately, we cannot be sure of that, because, as the famous quote [by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov] goes, if there is a gun hanging on the wall on the stage at the beginning of a show, it will certainly fire at the end.


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