A New Era of Arms Control: Myths, Realities and Options

... may be called “nuclear revanchism”) is that following major nuclear weapons reductions during the last thirty years, their ... ... used as the official pretext for the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty (in addition to accusing Russia of violating it). Washington ... ... nuclear weapons covered by the New START, the U.K., France and China have a total of 500 such weapons, 7 while each of the two ... ... nuclear revanchists are striving to make nuclear weapons more usable, while the revisionists call for discarding traditional ...