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The Evolution of Arms Control - From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Paperback)
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The Evolution of Arms Control - From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Paperback)
Series: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
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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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