Research and analysis of conventional and nuclear proliferation issues has produced an extensive resource base. This material will be extremely useful in systematically investigating the preconditions for and obstacles to general disarmament. This research and analysis on general disarmament will require sustained effort over at least a decade. In turn, they will carry out intensive research on how to bring about general disarmament, and will help reshape the policy debate and the climate within which general disarmament is discussed. Decreasing the likelihood of war and international conflict.
Arms races tend to exacerbate tensions.
However, negotiated, verified reductions encourage cooperation and mutual trust, as we have seen in Europe over the past decade and a half. Preventing new superpower rivalries. The potential for a new cold war, possibly between the United States and China, is disturbingly real. Sustaining a dialogue toward a disarmament regime could go a long way toward defusing this conflict. Reducing the damage resulting from conflict.