arms control

Oral History Series Spotlights Russian Arms Control Negotiations

Washington, D.C., February 23, 2023 – A few days after President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its observation of START, the only U.S.-Russia arms control agreement still in effect, a new series of oral history interviews with veteran Russian arms control negotiators and nuclear experts provides valuable insights into decades of U.S.-Russian nonproliferation efforts and emphasizes the importance of strategic dialogue between nuclear powers.

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David A. Cooper.  Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age: Between Disarmament and Armageddon.  Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021.  ISBN:  9781647121303 (hardcover, $110.96); 9781647121310 (paperback, $36.95).

"What an Insane Road We Are Both Following": Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, June 1967

Neither Superpower Wanted to be in an “Inferior” Position and Both Sought Strategic Advantage

Forwarded by a friend, whose interest allowed for this post, the Carnegie Peace online page has posted on the subject of proliferation with the below series of reports. Partial of this material is included here. For any further, see Carnegie website.

Would suggest it depends as much on how this matter was handled as it does upon the actual event and substance of such an international conference to produce arms control and disarmament agreement. Ratios such as used I 1921 may or not be some sort of model.
Issue of recognitions poses more problematic consideration but so do bi-lateral agreements.

Thanks Lewis for the discussion of KMT China, much new scholarship out and books like Rich Frank's Tower of Skulls take advantage of that new revisionist scholarship on Chiang and the KMT/GMD.
Any bibliographies welcome, think you have my CGSC email address, or you could go with the commercial one, jkuehn50@gmail.com.

And I heartily agree that a round turn on the current arms races by all concerned is worth a shot.

best, John