Once Again They Will Turn Their Swords to You

Converting weapons to peaceful civilian applications

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Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications.

The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah:

Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let usa go up to the mountain of the LORD , to the firm of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that nosotros may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge betwixt the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more than. –

The ploughshare (Hebrew: אֵת 'êṯ, besides translated coulter) is ofttimes used to symbolize creative tools that benefit humankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the sword (Hebrew: חֶרֶב ḥereḇ), a similar precipitous metal tool with an arguably opposite use.

In improver to the original Biblical Messianic intent, the expression "beat swords into ploughshares" has been used by disparate social and political groups.

An ongoing example as of 2013 is the dismantling of nuclear weapons and the utilise of their contents as fuel in civilian electric power stations, the Megatons to Megawatts Program. Nuclear fission development, originally accelerated for Globe State of war II weapons needs, has been applied to many civilian purposes since its use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including electricity and radiopharmaceutical product.

Biblical references [edit]

Mosaic in the Beit Habad Gallery, Jerusalem, quoting Isaiah 2:4, with lion, spear and spade.

This illustration is used several times in the Old Attestation or Tanakh, in both directions, such as in the following verses:

He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall crush their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift upwardly sword against nation, neither shall they larn war whatever more.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall intervene betwixt potent nations far abroad; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they larn war whatsoever more than.

An expression of this concept can be seen in a bronze statue in the United nations garden called Allow United states of america Crush Swords into Plowshares, a gift from the Soviet Union sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich, representing the figure of a man hammering a sword into the shape of a ploughshare.

Practical applications [edit]

• After World State of war II, military surplus AFVs were sometimes converted into bulldozers, agronomical, and logging tractors, as seen in the American television series Axe Men.^[1] Two are currently preserved at the Swords and Ploughshares Museum in Canada.^{[2] [3]} French farmers sometimes used modified versions of the obsolete FT-17 tank, and like vehicles, based on the T-34 tank, remain in widespread use in the former USSR.^[iv] A British agronomical engineer and collector of classic tractors, owns a Sherman tank that was adapted to plow Lincolnshire'southward fields in response to the shortage of crawler tractors.^[2]
• From the 1970s onwards, several anti-war musicians play guitars fabricated from armed services surplus weapons. Jamaican reggae star Pete Tosh famously owned a Stratocaster built around an M-16 rifle.^[five] In the present mean solar day the Escopetarra, a guitar converted from the AK-47, is the signature instrument of César López, Souriya Sunshine and Sami Lopakka of the Finnish expiry metal band Sentenced.^[6]
• Nitrogen mustard, developed from the chemic weapon mustard gas developed in World War I,^[vii] became the basis for the earth's offset chemotherapy drug, mustine, developed through the 1940s.^[viii]
• Peaceful nuclear explosions, the application of nuclear detonations to civilian applications such as excavation and mining, explored past the USA (Project Plowshare) and USSR (Nuclear Explosions for the National Economic system). All the same, the nuclear fallout and other contamination produced quickly rendered such programs impractical.
• Swedish assistance system IM Swedish Development Partner launched Humanium Metal, using metal from illegal handguns to create everyday objects. The first production appear was headphones by Yevo.^[9]
• The Global Positioning System was originally adult to enable more than accurate strikes with long-range weapons by the United States, just its purpose was afterward expanded to include civilian applications such as personal navigation assistants.
• The Plowshares movement (British, Christian, founded by Daniel Berrigan), Trident Ploughshares (British) and Pitstop Ploughshares (US, Christian) are peace movements, inspired by the book of Isaiah, in which participants attempt to damage or destroy modern weapons, such as nuclear missiles.
• The Megatons to Megawatts Program, agreed to in 1993 past the United states of america and Russia, successfully converted 500 metric tonnes of fuel from Soviet-era nuclear warheads into fuel for nuclear power plants over a period of 20 years.^[ten]

In political and popular culture [edit]

• The Starry Plough, a flag associated with revolutionary Irish republicanism and socialism, features a sword as the plowshare.
• Twelve-term The states Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul wrote a book entitled Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity, in which he discusses growing up during Globe War II and living his life through war after war.^[11]
• In his cheerio address, U.South. President Dwight Eisenhower, when speaking about the armed services–industrial circuitous, stated:

Until the latest of our globe conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with fourth dimension and every bit required, make swords equally well. But now we can no longer hazard emergency improvisation of national defense; nosotros accept been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, 3 and a half million men and women are straight engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than than the cyberspace income of all United states corporations.

• For his first and second inaugurations, U.S. President Richard Nixon took the oath of role with his manus on two family Bibles, opened to Isaiah two:two–4.^{[12] [thirteen] [14]}
• In their speeches at the signing of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin all referenced the saying in calling for peace.^[fifteen]
• In Ronald Reagan's address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations Full general Assembly in New York, New York.^[sixteen]

Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we ofttimes forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perchance we need some outside, universal threat to make united states recognize this common bond. I occasionally retrieve how quickly our differences world-wide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien forcefulness already among usa? What could be more than conflicting than war and the threat of war?

• The song "Ashes In Your Mouth" past Megadeth^[17] uses a reference to plows and shear to swords:

Melting down all metals, turning plows and shears to swords
Shun words of the Bible, nosotros need implements of state of war
Chalklines and ruby puddles of those who have been slain
Destiny, that crooked schemer, says the expressionless shall ascent once more

• The popular anti-state of war vocal "The Vine and Fig Tree" from the Greenham Mutual Women'due south Peace Camp Songbook repeats the verse^[xviii]

And everyone neath their vine and fig tree
shall live in peace and unafraid,
Everyone neath their vine and fig tree
shall live in peace and unafraid.
And into ploughshares trounce their swords
Nations shall learn war no more than.
And into ploughshares trounce their swords
Nations shall larn state of war no more than.

• The song "The End of the Innocence" by Don Henley (1989) uses the Joel inverted version of the phrase:

O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king

• "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson (1991):

Create a world with no fear
Together we'll weep happy tears
See the nations plow
Their swords into plowshares

• Finale of the musical Les Misérables:

They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk backside the ploughshare,
They will put abroad the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.

• A poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai:

Don't stop after beating the swords
into plowshares, don't stop! Go on beating
and make musical instruments out of them.
Whoever wants to make war again
will take to turn them into plowshares get-go.

Run into also [edit]

• Anti-war movement
• Diminutive gardening
• Escopetarra
• Guns vs butter
• Project Plowshare
• Plowshares movement

References [edit]

1. ^ Templar, Simon (11 October 2015). "Civilian Shermans: after the state of war – they went to work..." Retrieved 11 June 2017.
2. ^ ^{a b} Spoelstra, Hanno. "Shermans into ploughshares". web.inter.nl.cyberspace . Retrieved xi June 2017.
3. ^ "The Swords And Ploughshares Museum". www.calnan.com . Retrieved 11 June 2017.
4. ^ "BBC NEWS – Monitoring – Media reports – Ukraine turns tank into tractor". news.bbc.co.great britain . Retrieved 11 June 2017.
5. ^ "More Than Music: Peter Tosh And His M16 Rifle Guitar". Retrieved xi June 2017.
6. ^ UNODC. "UNODC Perspectives No. 3 – Escopetarra: Instrument of peace". www.unodc.org . Retrieved xi June 2017.
7. ^ United States Section of State, Bureau of Artillery Control, Verification and Compliance; United states of america Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (May 2004). "Introduction to Industry Implementation of the Chemic Weapons Convention" (PDF). cwc.gov. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. ^ Gilman A (May 1963). "The initial clinical trial of nitrogen mustard". Am. J. Surg. 105 (v): 574–8. doi:10.1016/0002-9610(63)90232-0. PMID 13947966.
9. ^ Kleinman, Zoe (2018). "Illegal guns turned into headphones". BBC News . Retrieved 2018-01-15 .
10. ^ "Megatons to Megawatts plan volition conclude at the end of 2013 - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (Eia)". world wide web.eia.gov . Retrieved 2020-04-02 .
11. ^ Paul, Ron (17 July 2015). Swords into Plowshares. Ron Paul Constitute for Peace and Prosperity. ISBN978-0996426503.
12. ^ United Press International (UPI) (20 Jan 1973). "Protestors' shouts mar inaugural ceremonies". Retrieved xviii Oct 2017.
13. ^ "These Are the Bible Verses By Presidents Accept Turned to on Inauguration Day". Time.
14. ^ Ross, Scott (21 Jan 2013). "Obama's Inaugural Bibles: Lincoln, MLK". NBC 6 South Florida . Retrieved 18 October 2017.
15. ^ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Office of the Federal Register. 1979. pp. 518–520.
16. ^ "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Archives". UTexas.edu. 1987-09-21. Retrieved 2013-01-01 .
17. ^ Concepts, Lucid Pattern. "Megadeth". Megadeth . Retrieved 2021-12-22 .
18. ^ "Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Songbook". Fredsakademiet.dk. Retrieved 2013-01-01 .

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