Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Negotiating START
Author: Kerry M. KartchnerPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412829489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The United States and the Soviet Union have been negotiating nuclear arms control agreements for over twenty years, yet radical differences remain in the two sides' concept of, and approaches to, strategic stability and arms control. This book compares and contrasts those approaches, using START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) as a case study. Throughout two decades of negotiation, U.S. policy has been directed toward dialogue that would encourage convergence of American and Soviet thought on nuclear deterrence. In Kartchner's view, that hope is belied not only by continuing asymmetries in the development and deployment of their strategic nuclear arsenals, but by differing U.S. and Soviet negotiating positions. The Reagan administration viewed START as a means of repudiating SALT II, restoring a measure of balance in the U.S.-Soviet strategic competition, and as a way of closing the so-called window of vulnerability. In contrast, Kartchner analyzes the Soviets' differing views of nuclear balance, emphasizing their satisfaction with SALT II and a strategic equilibrium shaped by a decade of bilateral arms control. Kartchner offers a detailed exposition of the major negotiating issues in START, contrasting concerns of U.S. and Soviet negotiators. Not surprisingly, each side's agenda was dominated by weapon systems that figure prominently in the other's development program. The author concludes by summarizing and comparing American and Soviet quests for stability and drawing up an assessment of U.S. efforts in both SALT and START to use arms control negotiations as a kind of classroom for instructing Soviet officials in American notions of "stabilizing" versus "destabilizing" weapon technology and America's own ethnocentric view of stability. START will profoundly affect the acquisition, operation, maintenance, and cost of U.S. strategic nuclear forces well into the next century. The history and analysis presented here will provide an essential source to policymakers and students of military-political relations for much-needed further study of this treaty's implications.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations
Author: Frank ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
SALT II agreement
Author: United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Nuclear Arms Control
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309034914
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present positions-and where they might go from here. According to Foreign Affairs, "This book is proof that the complexities of arms control can be successfully explained in a nontechnical, and even more importantly, nonpartisan manner....It presents the key issues in a clear, thorough, and remarkably up-to-date way....Strongly recommended as a primary source for classroom and public discussions."
The Future of Strategic Arms Control
Author: Rebecca LissnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780876093856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Strategic Arms Technology and Doctrine Under Arms Limitation Agreements
Author: Michael M. MayPublisher:
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Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agreements
Author: Competitive Arms Control
Author: John D. MaurerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union, become one of the most successful arms controllers of the Cold War? Drawing on newly opened Cold War archives, John D. Maurer argues that a central purpose of arms control talks for American leaders was to channel nuclear competition toward areas of American advantage and not just international cooperation. While previous accounts of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) have emphasized American cooperative motives, Maurer highlights how Nixon, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird shaped negotiations, balancing their own competitive interests with proponents of cooperation while still providing a coherent rationale to Congress. Within the arms control agreements, American leaders intended to continue deploying new weapons, and the arms control restrictions, as negotiated, allowed the United States to sustain its global power, contain communism, and ultimately prevail in the Cold War.
International Arms Control
Author: Coit D. BlackerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804712224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Completely revised and updated, this is an exhaustive analysis of national and international arms control: its history, philosophy, achievements and future prospects as well as its political, military and economic ramifications. Includes the complete text of the SALT II treaty and texts of major arms control agreements. ISBN 0-8047-1211-5 : $45.00; ISBN 0-8047-1212-0 (pbk.) : $16.95.