Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and DisarmamentScarecrow Press, 2005 - 362 pages Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament provides a historical review of key themes and issues in international security and arms control, focusing on efforts in the 20th century to control the spread and use of armaments and to prevent war. This book summarizes the rich and proud traditions of arms control and disarmament, their critical role in ensuring a non-catastrophic course throughout history (especially the dangerous period of the Cold War), and their continuing relevance and role in the emerging post-Cold War world. It also seeks to reinforce a broad perspective of key terms in order to capture the scope and range of their application yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Given this combined tradition and focus, this Dictionary serves two purposes. As a historical dictionary, it chronicles key terms, personalities, events, and agreements as a ready reference from which to launch a more extensive investigation. But it also seeks to capture the breadth of current and future applications by presenting the vocabulary of traditional and non-traditional approaches. The book includes a large dictionary of more than 1,000 key terms, as well as a comprehensive bibliography divided into multiple categories, an extensive chronology, and a timeline. This book can also serve as a useful desk reference for the policy practitioner. The pace and intensity of the practice of arms control often eliminates the luxury of conventional study of past or related arms control efforts. The dictionary seeks to provide a relevant sampling of treaty and agreement details and of the specific terms of reference of arms control to allow productive progress in a policy work environment. Researchers and students will also find the dictionary to be a useful reference tool. Much of the formal literature in the field, such as treaty texts and policy pronouncements, is written in technical language without elaboration. Also, many references to agreements are posed in shorthand intended only for the policy practi |
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... verification Peaceful nuclear explosives Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty Presidential nuclear initiative Plutonium Production Reactor Agreement Peoples ' Republic of China Pounds per square inch Proliferation Security Initiative ...
... verification Peaceful nuclear explosives Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty Presidential nuclear initiative Plutonium Production Reactor Agreement Peoples ' Republic of China Pounds per square inch Proliferation Security Initiative ...
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... Verification Commission Tactical air - to - surface missile Transporter erector launcher Theater high - altitude air defense Theater missile defense Theater nuclear forces Threshold Test Ban Treaty United Kingdom United Nations United ...
... Verification Commission Tactical air - to - surface missile Transporter erector launcher Theater high - altitude air defense Theater missile defense Theater nuclear forces Threshold Test Ban Treaty United Kingdom United Nations United ...
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... Verification Coordinating Committee Western European Union USSR UXO VCC VD Vienna Document WEU WHG Western Group of Forces ( Soviet ) WHO WMD WTO XON World Health Organization Weapons of mass destruction Warsaw Treaty Organization HQ ...
... Verification Coordinating Committee Western European Union USSR UXO VCC VD Vienna Document WEU WHG Western Group of Forces ( Soviet ) WHO WMD WTO XON World Health Organization Weapons of mass destruction Warsaw Treaty Organization HQ ...
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... verification of a nuclear test ban . Surprise Attack Conference begins ( through January 1959 ) . United States , United Kingdom , and USSR begin negotiations on a comprehensive test ban treaty ( CTBT ) as the Conference on the ...
... verification of a nuclear test ban . Surprise Attack Conference begins ( through January 1959 ) . United States , United Kingdom , and USSR begin negotiations on a comprehensive test ban treaty ( CTBT ) as the Conference on the ...
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... verification require- ments ) ; entry into force 1 June 1988 . 1988 U.S. On - Site Inspection Agency ( OSIA ) created within Department of Defense to handle INF verification and compliance duties . Iraq uses chemical weapons in attack ...
... verification require- ments ) ; entry into force 1 June 1988 . 1988 U.S. On - Site Inspection Agency ( OSIA ) created within Department of Defense to handle INF verification and compliance duties . Iraq uses chemical weapons in attack ...
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Page 4 - It rests essentially on the recognition that our military relation with potential enemies is not one of pure conflict and opposition, but involves strong elements of mutual interest in the avoidance of a war that neither side wants, in minimizing the costs and risks of the arms competition, and in curtailing the scope and violence of war in the event it occurs.
Page xxiii - Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, signed at Geneva June 17, 1925.