Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275994570)

In this work, an expert on biological weapons offers a thoughtful examination of the political and technical issues that have affected the implementation of arms control agreements from the 1960s to the present.

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 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.

Author: Marie Chevrier
ISBN-10: 0275994570
ISBN-13: 9780275994570
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2013