Arms, Defense Policy, and Arms Control

By Franklin A. Long

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393091880
• ISBN13: 9780393091885
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Norton
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

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Arms, Defense Policy, and Arms Control

In the last fifteen years the field of arms control has changed considerably. The problem of nuclear war, verification of arms-control and disarmnament agreements, negotiation of arms-control agreements, and the problems of agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union remain key issues. What has changed is that arms control and disarmnament now appear to be politically more complex than they did in 1960, while the technical aspects appear somewhat less complicated. There is an increasing acknowledgement of the interconnections between arms control and international political relations, crisis stabilization, and military weapons development. It is these changes that are explored and analyzed in the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by scholars and expert in the field of arms control. Abram Chayes' article examines the problems of American-Soviet relations as well as the character, organization and intentions of the larger international community, while Richard A. Falk's essay takes up the purely domestic aspects of the problem. Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin discusses the role of Congress in reaching decisions about specific weapons systems. Other authors look citically at how American defense policy is made and at how governmental bureaucracies reach their decisions about specific weapons systems. The concluding essay by George W. Rathjens points out the need for greater consensus on the fundamental questions of arms control. --- from book's back cover