Title: Open skies :
Authors: Rostow, W. W.
Date: 1982
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Physical description: xiv, 224 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: In 1955 the United States and the Soviet Union were matching steps in a race to develop missiles tipped with thermonuclear weapons. American officials were frustrated and alarmed by their inability to learn the scale and progress of the Soviet program, which directly threatened the security of the United States, and they were convinced that serious arms control measures required reliable means for mutual inspection. The result: President Dwight D. Eisenhower's dramatic Open Skies proposal, advanced--and rejected--at the Geneva summit of 1955.
Subject headings (LCSH): Disarmament--On-site inspection.; Disarmament--Verification; Nuclear disarmament.; Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.; United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.