You Shall Not Be Beaten Again

Converting weapons to peaceful civilian applications

This article is about converting military technology. For the American veterans' NPO, run across Swords to Plowshares.

Hand-separated large candlestick church chandelier with brass wax drip tray - GDR around 1980 - Utilise of armoured steel and brass - Single piece - Weight x kilograms

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

The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah:

Many peoples shall come up and say, "Come, let us go up to the mount of the LORD , to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach united states his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall get forth educational activity, and the give-and-take of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge betwixt the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall trounce their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift upwards sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more than. –

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

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

An ongoing example as of 2013 is the dismantling of nuclear weapons and the utilize of their contents as fuel in civilian electrical power stations, the Megatons to Megawatts Program. Nuclear fission development, originally accelerated for World War II weapons needs, has been applied to many civilian purposes since its employ at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including electricity and radiopharmaceutical production.

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 Testament 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 shell their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall non lift upward sword confronting nation, neither shall they learn state of war any more.

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

He shall judge betwixt many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall non lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn state of war any more.

An expression of this concept tin can be seen in a statuary statue in the United nations garden called Permit Usa Beat Swords into Plowshares, a gift from the Soviet Marriage sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich, representing the effigy of a human hammering a sword into the shape of a ploughshare.

Applied applications [edit]

• After World War Ii, military surplus AFVs were sometimes converted into bulldozers, agricultural, and logging tractors, as seen in the American television series Axe Men.^[1] Ii 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 utilise in the former USSR.^[4] A British agricultural engineer and collector of archetype tractors, owns a Sherman tank that was adapted to turn Lincolnshire's fields in response to the shortage of crawler tractors.^[2]
• From the 1970s onwards, several anti-state of war musicians play guitars made from armed forces surplus weapons. Jamaican reggae star Pete Tosh famously endemic a Stratocaster built around an M-16 rifle.^[5] In the nowadays 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 death metal band Sentenced.^[6]
• Nitrogen mustard, developed from the chemic weapon mustard gas adult in World War I,^[seven] became the ground for the earth's first chemotherapy drug, mustine, developed through the 1940s.^[8]
• Peaceful nuclear explosions, the application of nuclear detonations to noncombatant applications such as excavation and mining, explored by the Us (Projection Plowshare) and USSR (Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy). All the same, the nuclear fallout and other contamination produced quickly rendered such programs impractical.
• Swedish aid arrangement IM Swedish Development Partner launched Humanium Metal, using metal from illegal handguns to create everyday objects. The first production appear was headphones past Yevo.^[9]
• The Global Positioning System was originally developed to enable more than accurate strikes with long-range weapons by the United states, only its purpose was later expanded to include civilian applications such equally personal navigation assistants.
• The Plowshares movement (British, Christian, founded past Daniel Berrigan), Trident Ploughshares (British) and Pitstop Ploughshares (U.s., Christian) are peace movements, inspired by the book of Isaiah, in which participants attempt to impairment or destroy mod weapons, such as nuclear missiles.
• The Megatons to Megawatts Plan, agreed to in 1993 by the United States 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.^[10]

In political and popular culture [edit]

• The Starry Plough, a flag associated with revolutionary Irish gaelic republicanism and socialism, features a sword as the plowshare.
• Twelve-term US 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 State of war II and living his life through war after war.^[11]
• In his farewell address, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, when speaking about the military–industrial complex, stated:

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, brand swords as well. But now nosotros can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; nosotros have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, 3 and a one-half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on armed forces security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

• For his first and 2nd inaugurations, U.Due south. President Richard Nixon took the adjuration of office with his hand on two family unit Bibles, opened to Isaiah 2:2–4.^{[12] [thirteen] [14]}
• In their speeches at the signing of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Brainstorm all referenced the proverb in calling for peace.^[15]
• In Ronald Reagan's address to the 42nd Session of the United nations General Assembly in New York, New York.^[sixteen]

Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not alive in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make united states recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences world-broad would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from exterior this world. And nonetheless, I inquire you, is not an alien force already amid u.s.a.? What could be more than alien than war and the threat of war?

• The vocal "Ashes In Your Oral fissure" by Megadeth^[17] uses a reference to plows and shear to swords:

Melting downwards all metals, turning plows and shears to swords
Shun words of the Bible, we need implements of war
Chalklines and red puddles of those who have been slain
Destiny, that crooked schemer, says the expressionless shall rise again

• The popular anti-state of war vocal "The Vine and Fig Tree" from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Military camp Songbook repeats the verse^[18]

And everyone neath their vine and fig tree
shall live in peace and unafraid,
Anybody neath their vine and fig tree
shall live in peace and unafraid.
And into ploughshares beat out their swords
Nations shall larn state of war no more.
And into ploughshares vanquish their swords
Nations shall learn war no more.

• The song "The Cease of the Innocence" past 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 nosotros elected rex

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

Create a world with no fright
Together we'll cry happy tears
See the nations turn
Their swords into plowshares

• Finale of the musical Les Misérables:

They volition live again in liberty
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the ploughshare,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will take their reward.

• A poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai:

Don't stop later beating the swords
into plowshares, don't stop! Go on beating
and make musical instruments out of them.
Whoever wants to make state of war again
will have to plough them into plowshares first.

See likewise [edit]

• Anti-state of war movement
• Atomic gardening
• Escopetarra
• Guns vs butter
• Project Plowshare
• Plowshares movement

References [edit]

1. ^ Templar, Simon (eleven October 2015). "Civilian Shermans: after the war – they went to work..." Retrieved 11 June 2017.
2. ^ ^{a b} Spoelstra, Hanno. "Shermans into ploughshares". web.inter.nl.net . 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.united kingdom . 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 11 June 2017.
7. ^ United States Section of State, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance; United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Manufacture and Security (May 2004). "Introduction to Industry Implementation of the Chemical 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 (5): 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 program will conclude at the end of 2013 - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Data 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) (twenty January 1973). "Protestors' shouts mar inaugural ceremonies". Retrieved 18 October 2017.
13. ^ "These Are the Bible Verses Past Presidents Take Turned to on Inauguration Day". Fourth dimension.
14. ^ Ross, Scott (21 January 2013). "Obama'south Countdown Bibles: Lincoln, MLK". NBC 6 South Florida . Retrieved 18 Oct 2017.
15. ^ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United states of america, 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 Design. "Megadeth". Megadeth . Retrieved 2021-12-22 .
18. ^ "Greenham Common Women's Peace Campsite Songbook". Fredsakademiet.dk. Retrieved 2013-01-01 .

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