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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"arms control"”.
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Assertive Disarmament: the Other Arms Control
Assertive disarmament is the use of military force to delay or terminate the progress of nascent or ongoing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon programs along with, perhaps, their associated ballistic missile programs. Such capabilities in the hands of hostile powers increasingly threaten the …
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A Survey of Strategic Arms Control
… will detail the American experience in strategic arms control as it has been conducted in the post-World War II strategic environment. No single political enterprise has so involved the large powers or lent itself to the degree of public debate that has been generated by arms control. It has …
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Fluorescence Imaging for Nuclear Arms Control Verification
… the need of nuclear warhead verification for arms control treaties. Specifically, this technique uses fluorescence imaging to determine fissile material attributes in verifying, during the dismantlement process, an uncanned nuclear warhead or warhead component without revealing sensitive …
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Varying Priorities in Strategic Nuclear Arms Control
<p>Since the beginning of strategic nuclear arms control negotiations in 1969, Moscow and Washington have entered discussions with priorities to be met, though these differed greatly from one another. There were many driving factors for both world powers in seeking limitations and restrictions of …
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The Institutional Design of Arms Control: To What Extent Does Institutional Design Increase the Longevity of Arms Control Agreements?
<p>The technical institutional design of arms control agreements remains a rather unexplored area of arms control. But the increasing uncertainty of future arms control efficacy requires a re-examination of the agreements’ institutional design to determine which components contribute positively to …
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U.S. Arms Control Negotiations: From the Rush-Bagot Agreement to 1970
No abstract prepared.
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… presents a history of the community of nuclear arms control experts in the United States during the middle and later years of the Cold War, the age of thermonuclear ballistic missiles. Arms control experts were, in many interesting ways, both insiders and outsiders to the American "nuclear …
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Norms and non-governmental advocacy on conventional arms control : dynamics and governance.
… changes occurred in the field of conventional arms control in the last two decades. States adopted a multitude of norms on especially small arms control in various multilateral control instruments. In addition, non-governmental advocacy actors often established themselves as active participants …
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International Cooperation in Arms Control: Building Security Regimes to Contain Missile Proliferation
The final section of this study examines the institutional design, scope, and domain of the missile regime. It notes the advantages of expanding the missile regime's scope beyond supply-side technology barriers to build more politically robust nonproliferation institutions that would counter …
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The politics of failure : strategic nuclear arms control, public opinion, and domestic politics in the United States : 1945-1980
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1989.
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Nuclear warhead monitoring : a study of photon emissions from fission neutron interactions with high explosives as a tool in arms control verification
… not feasible, unless backgrounds can be better controlled. The difficulty is attributed to low solid-angle coverage of the neutron source by the melamine explosive surrogate, and competing backgrounds produced by neutron-source interactions with surrounding materials. This thesis also examined …
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Direct verification of nuclear weapons and the secrecy-certainty spectrum
Historically, arms control treaties have exclusively relied on indirect verification mechanisms. Increasingly, direct nuclear weapons verification proves relevant to future arms control treaties. I therefore explore the epistemology of direct nuclear weapons verification through interviews, …
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The Ladle and the Knife: Power Projection and Force Deployment under Reagan
… Reagan further confidence and cover to pursue arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union, against the protestations of anti-Soviet hardliners.</p> <p>Although Reagan supporters have credited the administration with either frightening or bankrupting the Soviets into disarmament, these …
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Calling Putin’s Bluff (Or Not?) An Assessment of Russian Attachment to the INF Treaty and Its Implications
… as a leader in the field of international arms control. This indicates that the Russians perceive the INF Treaty as both a guarantor of Russian security, and a tool through which to promote their interpretation of the moral and practical principles driving the international arms control …
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Japan's Missile Defense
… missiles could trigger a new phase of the arms race pitting offensive vs. defensive capabilities. The author argues that defense must be emphasized in order to achieve stability and security (mutual defense emphasis--MDE). Characterization of JMD as truly defensive or not depends on …
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An Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – In Search of a Security Architecture for the Arctic
… measures (CBMs) or intermediary arms control measures which would help to create the conditions necessary to negotiate Arctic denuclearization. Third, proposals have failed to make the best arguments for how and why an ANWFZ should be established by neglecting relevant …
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Inter-relationships between Small Arms Control and Peace Building Activities in Countries Emerging from Conflict. An Examination of the Inter-relationships between Programmes to Control Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and Peace Building Activities in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict.
Efforts to control small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the periods following violent conflict can have positive or negative impacts on peacebuilding efforts. Similarly, peacebuilding activities can both support or endanger efforts to place SALW under greater control. Despite the regular …
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Advocates For the People & the Test Ban
… private group played a significant part in the arms control debate during this period. Following the "Reagan/Bush Era" the future of nuclear testing was questionable. This thesis suggests that NRDC's role proved to be a significant factor in the arms control debate of the 1980s.
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The politics of verification and the control of nuclear tests, 1945-1980
… reached on verification regimes to support some arms control accords but not others; and (2) what determines the extent to which verification arrangements promote stable cooperation.
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