Nuclear arms control background and issues

✍ Scribed by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on International Security and Arms Control

• Publisher: National Academy Press
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering a nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control, this book describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their contemporary positions - and where they might go from here. It also shows that the complexities of arms control can be successfully explained in a nontechnical manner.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Front Matter
2 1 Overview
3 2 Strategic Offensive Nuclear Arms Control
4 3 The Nuclear Freeze
5 4 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Negotiations
6 5 Strategic Defensive Arms Control: The SALT I Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
7 6 Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Arms Control
8 7 Nuclear Test Bans
9 8 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
10 Acronyms
11 Appendix A SALT I Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms
12 Appendix B SALT II Treaty
13 Appendix C SALT I ABM Treaty
14 Appendix D Limited Test Ban Treaty
15 Appendix E Threshold Test Ban Treaty
16 Appendix F Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty
17 Appendix G Non-Proliferation Treaty
18 Index

✦ Subjects

Kernwaffe;Rüstungsbegrenzung