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Partial disarmament, in Litvinov’s opinion, is far less easy of attainment than general and complete disarmament; and he pressed this viewpoint upon the delegates to Geneva on more than one occasion.2 History, however, has not confirmed his judgement; and we have been the witness to such important acts of partial disarmament as the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, the PNE Treaty and the ABM Treaty; while all hope of general and complete disarmament has been deferred to the Greek Kalends.
Here and throughout the book, except where otherwise stated, I am including ‘arms control’ when I use the phrase ‘partial disarmament’ (see below).
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Notes and References
Gerard Smith, Doubletalk (New York: Doubleday, 1980) pp. 261 and 465.
So far as I am aware, the Soviet Union has not published the details of its proposals of 8 November 1973 in the open literature. A summary of them can be found, however, in G. M. Kornienko (ed), O Problemakh Razoruzheniya (Moscow, 1980) pp. 123–4, and on pp. 129–30 can be found the Soviet arguments for rejecting the ‘geographic factor’.
Lothar Ruehl, MBFR: Lessons and Problems, Adelphi Paper no. 176 (London: IISS, 1982) pp. 18–19.
Appendix: ‘The Moment of Hope’
They can be found in D. on D., 1945–59, vol. 1, pp. 423–4 and 460–7, or in ‘Report on the Proceedings of the Subcommittee of the UN Disarmamenent Conference, May 13—June 22, 1954.’ UN no. 2 (1954) Cmd. 9204. The Soviet counterproposal of 10 May 1955 can be found in UN Documents DC/71, Annex 15, pp. 17–25. Admirable summaries of them are also to be found in Noel-Baker’s The Arms Race (London: Stevens, 1958)
and in John Strachey’s On the Prevention of War (London: Macmillan, 1962).
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Vigor, P.H. (1986). The Soviet Attitude Towards Partial Disarmament. In: The Soviet View of Disarmament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07596-6_5
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