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The Evolution of Arms Control: Weapons of Mass Destruction

Autor Richard Dean Burns
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2013
Drawing on his knowledge of the comparative history of warfare and arms control across preliterate, ancient, medieval, and modern polities, Richard Dean Burns focuses longitudinally on such perennial arms control issues as negotiation, verification, and compliance. Although he does not, for example, allege that war elephants and nuclear weapons are of equal destructive potential, he does discern instructive similarities between Carthage in 202 BCE and Iraq in 1991 AD. Arms control and disarmament measures have been pursued and adopted throughout the history and prehistory of human warfare: sometimes as protocols recognizing evolving humanitarian taboos; sometimes as terms imposed by the victors on the vanquished; and sometimes as accords negotiated between rivals fearful of mutual destruction. Arms control measures ramped up in significance and urgency at the dawn of the 20th century by the introduction of rapid-fire weapons, aircraft, chemical agents, and submarines, and again at mid-century with the advent of weapons of mass destruction-nuclear, chemical, and bacteriological-with sophisticated delivery systems. As Burns makes clear, the enormous increase in destructive potential brought about by thermonuclear weaponry essentially changed the nature of war and, therefore, of arms control.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442223790
ISBN-10: 1442223790
Pagini: 251
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Weapons of Mass Destruction


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Descriere

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, The Evolution of Arms Control weds an inductive analysis of arms control systems to a general history of arms control from 883 BCE to the present. Comparing past and present challenges, it highlights recurring issues such as negotiation, verification, and compliance.

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15 illustrations

Notă biografică

Richard Dean Burns is professor emeritus of history at California State University, Los Angeles, CA. He is the coauthor/co-editor of 12 books, including Praeger's Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War and ABC-CLIO's Arms Control and Disarmament: A Bibliography.

Recenzii

Written for anyone interested in arms control and disarmament issues as well as military history, this book reviews the historic means and techniques for arms control such as demilitarization, regulation of arms manufacturing, stabilizing international environments and the outlawing of war. A section also reviews nuclear weaponry before and after the Cold War and the emergence of biological and bacterial delivery systems.
History has shown that war is terrible, but it would be even be more horrifying if nations had not attempted to placelimits on armed conflict. Few readers could have imagined the painstaking negotiations involved in reachingagreements placing restrictions on weaponry, torture, and other unsavory components of modern war until Burns, arecognized expert in foreign and national security affairs, published this new book. The author (emer., history,California State Univ., Los Angeles) highlights the historical antecedents that are at the heart of modern weaponscontrol accords. But he goes further than that and outlines how victors sought to disarm their former adversaries, asRome did with Carthage following the Punic Wars or the Allies did in Germany after WW II. Today, however, theissues are more complex and require considerable engagement on the world stage. Burns chronicles the progressionof arms negotiations, allowing readers to visualize the intricacy of arms control and grasp the difficulties of findingcommon ground in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Whether the world's diplomatic efforts will besuccessful remains to be seen. Still, a major contribution. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.