House of cards: why arms control must fail

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in security affairsPublication details: Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press, 1992Description: 242pISBN:
  • 0801427037 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: Argues that nations are only interested in arms control when they are not inclined to fight each other. Using naval treaties of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent attempts at nuclear weapons control, the author suggests that negotiated arms restrictions have merely indicated the temperature of international relations rather than influenced them.
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Argues that nations are only interested in arms control when they are not inclined to fight each other. Using naval treaties of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent attempts at nuclear weapons control, the author suggests that negotiated arms restrictions have merely indicated the temperature of international relations rather than influenced them.

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