Abstract
In a fairly regular cycle over the last fifteen years the western public has been offered a standard view of arms control by western politicians, amplified by the western press typically in breathless reportage of arms control negotiations. This view is that the nuclear arms race is not nice, that somehow it should be halted and that whatever particular set-piece of summitry or further episode of complicated Geneva negotiation is imminent is the last, best hope of humanity to achieve that halt. The Reagan administration signalled public endorsement of this goal for arms control when it changed SALT to START: Limitation to Reduction. Is this view correct, either as an historical statement of past arms control or as a realistic prescription for arms control in the future? A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words.
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Prins, G. (1986). Arms Control: Lessons Learned and the Future. In: Avenhaus, R., Huber, R.K., Kettelle, J.D. (eds) Modelling and Analysis in Arms Control. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82943-7_4
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