Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in every major area of arms control under active negotiation: strategic and conventional force reductions, a chemical weapons ban, and the vitality of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty regime. Also included is a fascinating account of the implementation of the INF Treaty through on-site inspections to verify missile destruction by the director of the U.S. On-Site Inspection Agency, Brigadier General Roland Lajoie. Roald Sagdeev, a prominent Soviet scientist and expert on security matters, offers his views of the Soviet Union's restructuring of its approach to national and international security. Also featured are essays by Wolfgang Panofsky, R. James Woolsey, Paul Doty, Matthew Meselson, Spurgeon Keeny, and Marvin Goldberger.
"Key to any arms control agreement are its provisions for verification and compliance. Verification questions will retain their fundamental importance as the U.S. debates arms control proposals in Geneva and Vienna, in the halls of Congress, in the news media, in symposia, and perhaps in the electoral process. What limitations on conventional and nuclear weapons are we safe in accepting and at what levels? U.S. verification capabilities are an essential part of this debate. A collection of insightful essays by the leading experts on verification issues, Verification: The Key to Arms Control in the 1990s makes a valuable contribution to the rational and responsible discussion of arms control."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has emerged as a major topic of international security in the post-Cold War world. This compendium of articles, published in The Washington Quarterly between 1991 and 1995, describes the changing nature of the problem, dissusses new trends in nonproliferation and counterproliferation policy, identifies new arms control challenges at the regional and global levels, and concludes by addressing the global politics of proliferation.