Why was the Committee of Public Safety created? What were the goals?

Which of these resulted in an actual slow down or limiting of the u.s. and soviet nuclear arsenals?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Why did noli me tangere have such a big impression on the narrator?