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Arms control: back to the future?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Extract

These five volumes are indicative of the current diversity of the literature of arms control. Although they can all be pigeon-holed as being about arms control they approach the subject from a variety of perspectives.

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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1988

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References

1. Bull, Hedley, The Control of the Arms Race (London, 1961)Google Scholar, Daedalus, lxxix; this appeared in book form in the United States as Brennan, Donald G. (ed.), Arms Control, Disarmament and National Security and in the UK as Arms Control and Disarmament: American Views and Studies (New York and London, 1961)Google Scholar; Schelling, Thomas and Halperin, Morton, Strategy and Arms Control (New York, 1961).Google Scholar

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3. Critiques of total disarmament include, Schelling, Thomas, ‘The Role of Deterrence in To.tal Disarmament’, Foreign Affairs, xl (1962), pp. 392406CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Wolfers, Arnoldet al., The United States in a Disarmed World (Baltimore, MD, 1966).Google Scholar

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7. Mack, ‘Conclusion’, p. 313.

8. Ibid., p. 302.

9. J. L. Richardson, ‘Arms Control in the Later 1980s: the Implications of the Strategic Defence Initiative’, in Ball and Mack, op. cit., p. 86.

10. Kincade, op. cit., p. 11.

11. Randall Forsberg, ‘The Freeze and Beyond’, in Ball and Mack, op. cit., p. 72.

12. Ibid., p. 74.

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17. Richardson, op. cit.; and Colin S. Gray, ‘The Reagan Administration and Arms Control’, in Ball and Mack, op. cit.

18. Waller, op. cit., p. 83.

19. Pitt, David, ‘Nuclear Free Zones: An Idea Whose Time has Come’, in Pitt, David and Thomson, Gordon (eds), Nuclear Free Zones (London, 1987), p. 4.Google Scholar

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21. Greg Fry, ‘Regional Arms Control in the South Pacific’, in Pitt and Thompson, op. cit., pp. 49–50.

22. Peri Pamir, ‘The Quest for a Balkan Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone’, in Pitt and Thomson, op. cit., p. 108.

23. Joe Camillieri, ‘Arms Control in the Indian Ocean’, in Ball and Mack, op. cit., p. 167.

24. Ibid., p. 169.

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27. Ibid., pp. 3–4.