Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The INF Treaty: January 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1988
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The INF Treaty
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The INF Treaty: March 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, and 30, and May 16, 1988
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Unraveling the Gray Area Problem
Author: Luke GriffithPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501773089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In Unraveling the Gray Area Problem, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate and then failed in just thirty years. The INF Treaty enhanced Western security by prohibiting US and Russian ground-based missiles with maximum ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Significantly, it eliminated hundreds of Soviet SS-20 missiles, which could annihilate targets throughout Eurasia in minutes. Through close scrutiny of US theater nuclear policy from 1977 to 1987, Griffith describes the Carter administration's masterminding of the dual-track decision of December 1979, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) initiative that led to the INF Treaty. The Reagan administration, in turn, overcame bureaucratic infighting, Soviet intransigence, and political obstacles at home and abroad to achieve a satisfactory outcome in the INF negotiations. Disagreements between the US and Russia undermined the INF Treaty and led to its dissolution in 2019. Meanwhile, the US is developing a new generation of ground-based, INF-type missiles that will have an operational value on the battlefield. Griffith urges policymakers to consider the utility of INF-type missiles in new arms control negotiations. Understanding the scope and consistency of US arms control policy across the Carter and Reagan administrations offers important lessons for policymakers in the twenty-first century.
The Control Agenda
Author: Matthew J. AmbrosePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501709372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond. Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to the interplay of diplomacy, domestic politics, and technology, and finds that the SALT process was a key point of reference for arguments regarding all forms of Cold War decision making. Ambrose argues elite U.S. decision makers used SALT to better manage their restive domestic populations and to exert greater control over the shape, structure, and direction of their nuclear arsenals. Ambrose also asserts that prolonged engagement with arms control issues introduced dynamic effects into nuclear policy. Arms control considerations came to influence most areas of defense decision making, while the measure of stability SALT provided allowed the examination of new and potentially dangerous nuclear doctrines. The Control Agenda makes clear that verification and compliance concerns by the United States prompted continuous reassessments of Soviet capabilities and intentions; assessments that later undergirded key U.S. policy changes toward the Soviet Union. Through SALT’s many twists and turns, accusations and countercharges, secret backchannels and propaganda campaigns the specter of nuclear conflict loomed large.
Defense Issues
Author: Sam Nunn
Author: Frank Leith JonesPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700633170
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a “leading theory: There are no giants in the chamber today.” Among the respected members who once walked the Senate floor, admired for their expertise and with a stature that went beyond party, Milbank counted Sam Nunn (D-GA). Nunn served in the Senate for four terms beginning in 1972, at a moment when domestic politics and foreign policy were undergoing far-reaching changes. As a member and then chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he had a vital impact on most of the crucial national security and defense issues of the Cold War era and the “new world order” that followed—issues that included the revitalization of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military capability, US-Soviet relations, national defense reorganization and reform, the Persian Gulf conflict, and nuclear arms control. In this first full account of Nunn’s senatorial career, Frank Leith Jones reveals how, as a congressional leader and “shadow secretary of defense,” Nunn helped win the Cold War, constructing the foundation for the defense and foreign policies of the 1970s and 1980s that secured the United States and its allies from the Soviet threat. At a time of bitter political polarization and partisanship, Nunn’s reputation remains that of a statesman with a record of bipartisanship and a dedication to US national interests above all. His career, as recounted in Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age, provides both a valuable lesson in the relationships among the US government, foreign powers, and societies and a welcome reminder of the capacity of Congress, even a lone senator, to promote and enact policies that can make the country, and the world, a better and safer place.
Arms Control Today
Author: Russia's Capitalist Revolution
Author: Anders ÅslundPublisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 0881325376
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description