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In the early 1980s, when some existing arms-control agreements were subjects of friction, when proposals for new accords were in trouble, and when the benefits of arms control were being questioned, many resisted the fashion and instead stuck obstinately to their arms-control guns. In particular, several writers (including some associated with the IISS) asserted that the factors which had led governments to take arms control seriously in the past were still very much in evidence, and that the approach to arms control which had emerged in Western Europe and the US around the time of the formation of this Institute would stage a come-back.1 It has indeed done so, one might even say with a vengeance. Now, in the late 1980s, should a prudent analysis be that the pendulum will swing again, and that arms control will face serious difficulties in the next few years?
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David Dilks, ‘“The Great Dominion”: Churchill’s Farewell Visits to Canada, 1952 and 1954’, Canadian Journal of History, vol. XXIII, April 1988, p. 55.
Caspar W. Weinberger, ‘Arms Reductions and Deterrence’, Foreign Affairs, Spring 1988.
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Roberts, A. (1989). Arms Control: Problems of Success. In: Heisbourg, F. (eds) The Changing Strategic Landscape. Adelphi Papers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11129-9_14
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