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English Language Test, from Thin Ice Peace Poems, by Pat Arrowsmith 5.11.81
Q: What is English for “Peacekeeping”? A: fighting.
Q: What is English for “arm limitations”? A: Weapons development.
Q: What is English for “take out”? A: Raze to the ground.
Q: What is English for “nuclear capability”? A: Schemed extinction.
Q: What is English for “deterrence”? A: Killing everyone first.
Q: What is English for “device”? A: Means of extermination.
Q: What is English for “posture”? A: Missiles-at-the-ready.
Q: What is English for “family”? A: Ultimate mutual destruction.
Q: What is English for “nuclear balance”? A: Preparing for war.
Q: What is English for “deployment”? A: Planned annihilation.
Q: What is English for “acceptable level”? A: Lethal dose.
Q: What is English for “generation”? A: Overkill bomb after bomb.
Q: What is English for “theatre”? A: Battlefield.
Q: What is English for “tactical weapons”? A: Decimating explosions.
Q: What is English for “flexible response”? A: Naked aggression.
Q: What is English for “miscalculation”? A: Ending the world by mistake.
Q: What is English for “Peacekeeper”? A: Weapon of mass destruction.
Q: What is English for “multilateralism”? A: Continuing the arms race.
Q: What is English for “fall-out shelter”? A: Tomb for the privileged.
Q: What is English for “first strike”? A: Slaughter of the millions in peacetime.
Q: What is English for “threshold”? A: Brink.
Q: What is English for “collateral damage”? A: Casual carnage.
Q: What is English for “defence”? A: Attack.
Q: What is English for “victory”? A: Obliteration.
Q: What is English for “target”? A: You and me.
Q: What is English for “enemy”? A: People like us.
Q: What is English for “peace”? A: War.
Pat Arrowsmith wrote wonderful anti-nuclear war poetry and has been arrested in many countries protesting at military bases including USA and USSR. She came to one of Tunbridge Wells CNDs meetings in the 1980s.
Updated March 2020