Are We Approaching the End of the Arms Control Era?

... on their insight by adding the changes in strategic thinking forced by the introduction of nuclear weapons, one can better understand where we find ourselves today. One of the policy tools greatly strengthened in the current internationalist era is arms control — international agreements in which the parties agree to mutual limitations on their freedom of action — curbing arms races and enhancing crisis stability. In the last chapter of their book, the authors issue an ominous warning: “…the ...