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The Evolution of Arms Control - From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
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The Evolution of Arms Control - From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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The Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age is
the first world history of arms control through time. 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. 15 illustrations
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