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Book Negotiating START

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry M. Kartchner
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781412829489
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Negotiating START written by Kerry M. Kartchner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and the Soviet Union have been negotiating nuclear arms control agreements for over twenty years, yet radical differences remain in the two sides' concept of, and approaches to, strategic stability and arms control. This book compares and contrasts those approaches, using START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) as a case study. Throughout two decades of negotiation, U.S. policy has been directed toward dialogue that would encourage convergence of American and Soviet thought on nuclear deterrence. In Kartchner's view, that hope is belied not only by continuing asymmetries in the development and deployment of their strategic nuclear arsenals, but by differing U.S. and Soviet negotiating positions. The Reagan administration viewed START as a means of repudiating SALT II, restoring a measure of balance in the U.S.-Soviet strategic competition, and as a way of closing the so-called window of vulnerability. In contrast, Kartchner analyzes the Soviets' differing views of nuclear balance, emphasizing their satisfaction with SALT II and a strategic equilibrium shaped by a decade of bilateral arms control. Kartchner offers a detailed exposition of the major negotiating issues in START, contrasting concerns of U.S. and Soviet negotiators. Not surprisingly, each side's agenda was dominated by weapon systems that figure prominently in the other's development program. The author concludes by summarizing and comparing American and Soviet quests for stability and drawing up an assessment of U.S. efforts in both SALT and START to use arms control negotiations as a kind of classroom for instructing Soviet officials in American notions of "stabilizing" versus "destabilizing" weapon technology and America's own ethnocentric view of stability. START will profoundly affect the acquisition, operation, maintenance, and cost of U.S. strategic nuclear forces well into the next century. The history and analysis presented here will provide an essential source to policymakers and students of military-political relations for much-needed further study of this treaty's implications.

Book Nuclear Arms Control

Download or read book Nuclear Arms Control written by Amy F. Woolf and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 24, 2002, Pres. Bush and Russia¿s Pres. Putin signed the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. It mandated that the U.S. and Russia reduce their strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,700 and 2,200 warheads by Dec. 31, 2012. The two nations began, in 2006, to hold discussions about the 2009 expiration of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which contains monitoring provisions. Contents of this report: (1) The Negot¿s.: Russian, and U.S. Objectives; Reaching an Agree.; Form and Content of the Agree.; (2) The Treaty; (3) Force Structures Under the Treaty; U.S., and Russia¿s Force Structure; (4) Assessing the Outcome: Russia¿s, and U.S. Objectives; (5) Treaty Ratification; (6) Response and Reaction; (8) The Road Ahead. Tables.

Book Negotiations on Strategic Arms Reductions

Download or read book Negotiations on Strategic Arms Reductions written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty  START  and Plans for Future Reductions in Nuclear Warheads and Delivery Systems Post New Start Treaty

Download or read book Implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty START and Plans for Future Reductions in Nuclear Warheads and Delivery Systems Post New Start Treaty written by United Stat Committee on Armed Services and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's hearing is a continuation of our dialogue on U.S. Strategic posture in a post-New START treaty environment in what appears to be the administration's intention to change U.S. Nuclear doctrine and targeting guidance in an attempt to pursue further reductions in the nuclear stockpile on the path to what many of us feel is a misguided and dangerous idea of a world without nuclear weapons.

Book Negotiating the New START Treaty

Download or read book Negotiating the New START Treaty written by Rose Gottemoeller and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty-and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation-delivers in this book an invaluable insider's account of the negotiations between the US and Russian delegations in Geneva in 2009 and 2010. It also examines the crucially important discussions about the treaty between President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, and it describes the tough negotiations Gottemoeller and her team went through to gain the support of the Senate for the treaty. And importantly, at a time when the US Congress stands deeply divided, it tells the story of how, in a previous time of partisan division, Republicans and Democrats came together to ratify a treaty to safeguard the future of all Americans. Rose Gottemoeller is uniquely qualified to write this book, bringing to the task not only many years of high-level experience in creating and enacting US policy on arms control and compliance but also a profound understanding of the broader politico-military context from her time as NATO Deputy Secretary General. Thanks to her years working with Russians, including as Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, she provides rare insights into the actions of the Russian delegation-and the dynamics between Medvedev and then-Prime Minister Vladmir Putin. Her encyclopedic recall of the events and astute ability to analyze objectively, while laying out her own thoughts and feelings at the time, make this both an invaluable document of record-and a fascinating story. In conveying the sense of excitement and satisfaction in delivering an innovative arms control instrument for the American people and by laying out the lessons Gottemoeller and her colleagues learned, this book will serve as an inspiration for the next generation of negotiators, as a road map for them as they learn and practice their trade, and as a blueprint to inform the shaping and ratification of future treaties. This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Dr. Geoffrey R.H. Burn) and has received much praise, including: “As advances in technology usher in a new age of weaponry, future negotiators would benefit from reading Rose Gottemoeller’s memoir of the process leading to the most significant arms control agreement of recent decades.” —Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State “Rose Gottemoeller’s book on the New START negotiations is the definitive book on this treaty or indeed, any of the nuclear treaties with the Soviet Union or Russia. These treaties played a key role in keeping the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union from breaking out into a civilization-ending war. But her story of the New START negotiation is no dry academic treatise. She tells with wit and charm the human story of the negotiators, as well as the critical issues involved. Rose’s book is an important and well-told story about the last nuclear treaty negotiated between the US and Russia.” —William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense “This book is important, but not just because it tells you about a very significant past, but also because it helps you understand the future.” — George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State

Book The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

Download or read book The Strategic Arms Reduction Talks written by Alexander Meigs Haig and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking the Unthinkable

Download or read book Rethinking the Unthinkable written by Ivo H. Daalder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Unthinkable examines the future direction of nuclear arms control in the post-Cold War security environment. Believing that the new environment requires a radical rethinking of the purpose and role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the contributors address many fundamental issues influencing further US, Russian and European nuclear arms reductions. This volume is a product of the Project on Rethinking Arms Control, sponsored by the Center for International and Security Studies in Maryland.

Book Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements

Download or read book Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Security Implications of U S  Ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty   START II

Download or read book National Security Implications of U S Ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty START II written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reykjavik and Beyond

Download or read book Reykjavik and Beyond written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No more important issue faces us today than the future success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. Reykjavik and Beyond represents the careful consideration of this subject by a group of experts deeply involved in arms control. The authors consider what changes in force structures, strategic thought, and political relations would be necessary to make possible large reductions in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals. They also examine how very deep cuts would affect other aspects of the military balance and the political and international order more broadly.

Book Strategic Arms Control After START

Download or read book Strategic Arms Control After START written by Amy F. Woolf and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in 1991; it entered into force in December 1994 and is due to expire in December 2009. The United States and Russia have held several meetings to discuss options for continuing their arms control relationship. They are currently negotiating a new Treaty that would replace START. Contents of this report: Introduction; The START Treaty; The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty; and Preparing for START Expiration.

Book The Opportunity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Pifer
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0815724292
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Opportunity written by Steven Pifer and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington today and enhance both American and global security. Pifer and O'Hanlon make a compelling case for further arms control measures —to reduce the nuclear threat to the United States and its allies, to strengthen strategic stability, to promote greater transparency regarding secretive nuclear arsenals, to create the possibility for significant defense budget savings, to bolster American credibility in the fight to curb nuclear proliferation, and to build a stronger and more sustainable U.S.-Russia relationship. President Obama gave priority to nuclear arms control early in his first term and, by all accounts, would like to be transformational on these questions. Can there be another major U.S.-Russia arms treaty? Can the tactical and surplus strategic nuclear warheads that have so far escaped controls be brought into such a framework? Can a modus vivendi be reached between the two countries on missile defense? And what of multilateral accords on nuclear testing and production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons? Pifer and O'Hanlon concisely frame the issues, the background, and the choices facing the president; provide practical policy recommendations, and put it all in clear and readable prose that will be easily understood by the layman.

Book Bomb Scare

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Cirincione
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0231135106
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Bomb Scare written by Joseph Cirincione and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Cirincione provides a probing investigation into the proliferation of nuclear weapons and what can be done to slow, stop, and even reverse their spread.

Book Strategic Arms Control in the Post START Era

Download or read book Strategic Arms Control in the Post START Era written by Rose Eilene Gottemoeller and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out and examines the major issues affecting the future of strategic arms control beyond the START Treaty, beyond the old East-West confrontation, and beyond the Soviet state itself. The product of a working group convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, it contains selected papers by an authoritative group of scholars and practitioners, among them Paul H. Nitze, former chief START negotiator and senior adviser to the Reagan administration, and Gennady K. Khromov former senior representative of Soviet military industries in the Kremlin. Addressing options for reducing strategic arms, approaches for negotiation, and the impact of factors such as cost and new technologies, Strategic Arms Control in the Post-START Era is a timely work which will inform discussion and debate at the highest levels and within the broad policy community.

Book SDI and arms control

Download or read book SDI and arms control written by Howard G. DeWolf and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milestones in strategic arms control 1945 2000

Download or read book Milestones in strategic arms control 1945 2000 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: