Geneva is the only city in the world to have gained fame and prosperity from successive failures. This placid, tidy town lying on the shores of Lac Léman and beneath Mont Blanc, the tallest of the Alps, has been the scene of some of humanity's most trying moments. It is a place where great ideas turn to dust in the archives, and where nations exhausted by war come to end their fighting.
Last week, like every week, Geneva resounded with the din of wrangling delegations. In another wearying round of the nuclear test ban negotiations, the West refused to scale...
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