Arms control policy
Subtitle: a guide to the issues
By: Marie Isabelle Chevrier
Series: Contemporary military, strategic, and security issues
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780275994570; 9781567207118
Subjects: International cooperation; Arms control; Government policy
Description: Arms control was an issue of perennial concern during the second half of the 20th century and continues to command attention today. How did the many arms control treaties come to be, what have they accomplished, and, perhaps most important, where do we go from here? --

Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues examines the history of the major arms control treaties since the early 1960s. It offers readers a broad understanding of the ways in which arms control agreements were negotiated and implemented during the Cold War, the international and national events that affected treaty negotiation and implementation, and how the arms control landscape has changed in the war's aftermath. --

Specifically, the handbook overviews the obligations contained in bilateral U.S.-Soviet/Russian and multilateral arms control agreements covering nuclear and nonnuclear weapons. It also treats such agreements as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear test ban treaties, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, and the Treaty to Ban Cluster Munitions. The book concludes with a look at the current challenges in the implementation of arms control agreements and the future of arms control. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Controlling the growth of nuclear weapons and delivery systems: nuclear arms control between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation; title: Multilateral nuclear arms control: controlling the spread and testing of nuclear weapons; title: Controlling biological and chemical weapons; title: Controlling anti-personnel landmines, cluster munitions and explosive remnants of war; title: Conclusion.