Disarmament: Utopian Concept or Imperative of the Post-Wilson Era?

... States stepped up its efforts to build up nuclear weapons and delivery systems. In 1967, the U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) increased their missile arsenal by a factor of 40 (!)[ 2 ]. Realizing where these processes were leading, Khrushchev authorized ... ... fundamentally new situation in which warfare was no longer an instrument but rather a determinant of politics. For this reason, disarmament turned from the symbol and ultimate guarantee of peace, as Wilson had envisioned it, into one of the primary areas ...