Disarmament sketches : three decades of arms control and international law
Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones of international security as SALT, START, and the ABM, INF, and CFE treaties as well as conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons. Graham's memoir offers a history of the key negotiations which have substantially reduced the threat of nuclear war. His is a personal account of bureaucratic battles over arms control in six administrations, navigating among the White House, Congress, cabinet secretaries, and agencies with overlapping responsibilities and often competing interests. No comparable text brings together detailed analyses of so many pivotal documents in the history of the Cold War; it offers abundant primary source material for historians, international lawyers, and arms control specialists around the world. Disarmament Sketches also charts the rise and fall of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the only U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for arms control policy, and lays out an agenda for continuing progress in reducing weapons stockpiles around the globe. Throughout his career, Graham has worked tirelessly to reverse the nuclear arms race and to persuade leaders around the world to make their nations safer by renouncing and reducing their weapons of mass destruction
Print Book, English, ©2002
Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies : University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©2002
History
xix, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780295982120, 0295982128
49225352
Politics, Louisville and Washington, D.C
Chemical and biological weapons
SALT I
SALT II, part one : the Nixon-Ford years
SALT II, part two : the Carter years
The Reagan revolution and the INF and START Treaties
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
Survival of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NPT aftermath and the end of ACDA
Includes index
"This publication was supported in part by the Donald R. Ellegood International Publications Endowment"--Title page verso