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Category : Ammunition
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate the Munitions Industry
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Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1068

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Author: Robert M. Blum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040025935
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring. The narrative begins after the Napoleonic wars when newly arisen peace movements focused on arbitration as a path to “ending the war system.” It moves on to the international community’s embrace of “total and complete disarmament” and then to its acceptance of more limited measures by 1968, including the agreements that remain in force today. The book connects the past to the present of multiple negotiations, successful and failed, and underlines how the peace movement increasingly influenced the national policy of the major Western powers, especially the United States. It also highlights the increasing diversification of arms control players, including women and people of color as well as the countries they represented. Based on original research in multinational records and the latest scholarship, the book illustrates the reasons multilateral arms control remains a key instrument of international relations. The chapters are organized both chronologically and thematically, with the result that they cover different amounts of time in order to encompass a given issue and to capture the development of particular threads. The main narrative evolves into a decadeslong quest for a global treaty on “general and complete disarmament,” which otherwise paces the book and shapes its chapters. This book will be of much interest to students of arms control, global governance, peace studies, and International Relations.

Author: League of Nations
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Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 1272

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Author: Manley Ottmer Hudson
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Category : Firearms industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Army Library (U.S.)
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Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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Author: United States. Department of State
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1088

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Author: Edward M. Spiers
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137104546
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Ever since its employment in the First World War, chemical warfare has always aroused controversy. Governments have responded by pursuing the policies of disarmament and deterrence in the hope of avoiding its recurrence. However, despite the signing of the Geneva Protocol in 1925 which banned the use of poison gas, chemical weapons have been used in subsequent conflicts and most recently in the Gulf War between Iraq and Iran. In this work the policies of disarmament and deterrence will be reassessed within a broad historical and strategic context. It will be argued that poison gas could still be used in a modern European conflict; that the Soviet forces are the best equipped to operate in a contaminated environment; and that weaknesses persist in NATO's anti-chemical defences and in her deterrent. It will be emphasised, too, that the Geneva disarmament talks, which have made some progress in recent years, still face formidable difficulties over the issues of verification and compliance. Above all, it will be claimed that the onset of nuclear parity between the superpowers has eroded the credibility of a deterrent to chemical attack based upon the threat of nuclear release. Accordingly, this book will contend that the United States should modernize her stockpile of chemical weapons to bolster the Western deterrent and to provide more leverage for the negotiations in Geneva.