Open skies
Subtitle: Eisenhower's proposal of July 21, 1955
By: W.W. Rostow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ideas and action series ;; no. 4
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Nuclear disarmament; Disarmament -- Verification; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.