The nuclear arms race had dominated international politics for the
two decades prior to publication. Originally published in 1975,
this symposium examines the dynamics of change within the arms race
and the attempts at controlling and limiting it. At the time the
nuclear arms race was strongly technologically determined, as
Herbert York demonstrates in discussing the impact of MIRV. Such
progress as has been made in nuclear disarmament has been far
outdistanced by the technological developments so that, as Jack
Ruina argues, SALT is only important when seen as part of a process
of negotiating arms limitations. The most significant result of
this technological advance has been the emergence of a
qualitatively new system of international politics which Hans
Morgenthau analyses. This system is essentially bipolar in nuclear
terms and the history of the disarmament negotiations, as reviewed
by William Epstein, is an exercise in freezing this structure. The
negotiations themselves, particularly SALT, and the prospects for
further progress are discussed extensively by Thomas Schelling,
Kosta Tsipis, George Rathjens and others. The book also surveys
developments in chemical and biological warfare and includes an
important paper on chemical warfare agents by the Soviet chemist,
O.A. Ruetov. The final section looks at recent developments in the
theory of conflict and its applications in the Middle East, South
Africa and a number of developing countries.
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