Let's not forget the role of the arms trade in spreading human misery. The country that exports most arms is the US. Britain is a long way second, closely followed by France. (Anyone remember the outrage of the British media when Argentina turned out to be using French-made excocet missiles against our forces in 1982?) Russia comes a poor fourth, a long way behind France.

In respective degrees, the economies of these nations thrive on this immoral trade. But like the worker in a nuclear-bomb factory said: "A man's gotta live...."