Are We Approaching the End of the Arms Control Era?

The speech was made by Greg Thielmann on April 1, 2019 in Grinnell College, the United States Introduction I wanted to start with a theme I encountered in a book, entitled The Internationalists, about the Kellogg-Briand “Peace Pact” — the 1928 treaty, signed in Paris, which outlawed war. I had learned long ago that this agreement was naïve and utterly feckless, spectacularly failing to prevent an even more cataclysmic world war than the one, which spawned it. But the two Yale Law School professors...