Once and Future Partners

Once and Future Partners
Author: William C. Potter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429626746

Despite their Cold War rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union frequently engaged in joint efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Leaders in Washington and Moscow recognized that nuclear proliferation would serve neither country’s interests even when they did not see eye-to-eye in many other areas. They likewise understood why collaboration in mitigating this nuclear danger would serve both their own interests and those of the international community. This volume examines seven little known examples of US-Soviet cooperation for non-proliferation, including preventing South Africa from conducting a nuclear test, developing international safeguards and export control guidelines, and negotiating a draft convention banning radiological weapons. It uses declassified and recently-digitized archival material to explore in-depth the motivations for and modalities for cooperation under often adverse political circumstances. Given the current disintegration of Russian and US relations, including in the nuclear sphere, this history is especially worthy of review. Accordingly, the volume’s final chapter is devoted to discussing how non-proliferation lessons from the past can be applied today in areas most in need of US-Russian cooperation.

Foreign Relations of the United States

Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher: Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian
Total Pages: 1186
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume documents U.S. efforts to negotiate multilateral agreements with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and the Soviet Bloc, which would allow for greater European security. This volume has a broader scope than most, since it covers the entire span of both the Nixon and Ford administrations, 1969-1976. The volume is centered around two basic questions the U.S. Government faced: how best to achieve security and cooperation in Europe, and how to reduce both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe.

Reversing the Arms Race

Reversing the Arms Race
Author: Frank Von Hippel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9782881244360

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat

US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat
Author: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 1977-06-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349033979

The author examines in detail the organization of the U.S. intelligence community, its attempts to monitor and predict the development of Soviet forces from the early days of the cold war, and how these attempts affected American policy and weapons production.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Nuclear Weapon Tests

Nuclear Weapon Tests
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198291206

How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of authoritative expertise and opinion as an informed contribution to the debate among governmental experts and the informed public.