I now realise that my occasional attempts to revitalise the idea of a @UN Air Force to celebrate #UN75 were utterly lacking in ambition. Cc. @CarverUNA @Natalie_UN75 @HochschildF @TogetherFirst @columlynch @DeSachenka https://twitter.com/CWIHP/status/1318197714325262336

This is fascinating: The US kicked around the idea of 10,000-personnel @UN air force with nuclear weapons based in #Canada. What say you @BobRae48 and @CanadaUN?

More fascinating details from @RyanAMusto's fascinating paper on early US proposals to give the #UnitedNations the atom bomb. The UK didn't like the idea because it thought other P5 members would veto the use of nukes against their allies (or even, shockingly, themselves)...

Advocates of a UN Air Force armed with nuclear weapons also suggested that it could be funded by... a tax on international travel. That's an idea that environmentalists now often propose to cover costs of green policies.

Nothing is ever really new @UN, nothing...