Abstract
Arms control is but one of a series of alternative approaches to achieving international security through military strategies. Although the basic idea of arms control has its roots in the nineteenth century, the rise of modern arms control as a theory and practice can be traced to the Cold War era as an outcome of the American-Soviet nuclear arms race. In fact, arms control started to assume considerable importance in the field of security studies toward the late 1960s when the two superpowers entered their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Vienna and Helsinki in 1969 and concluded their first arms control agreement, SALT I, in 1972. Since then, the Americans, the Soviets and the Europeans have spent more than 30 years in discussing, negotiating, and signing different agreements on arms control in both the nuclear and the conventional fields.
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Notes
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“Strengthening International Regimes for Arms Control and Disarmament”. Background Note prepared by the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, New York, 19–20 October 2004.
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Statement by Harold E. Stassen to the UN Disarmament Subcommittee, 6 September 1955. Documents on Disarmament 1945–1959, Vol. I. (Washington, DC: ACDA, 1960), p. 512.
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For a detailed review of CBMs within the context of the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty, see the text of the “Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty”, 1979; available at: http://www.mideastweb.org/egyptisraeltreaty.htm.
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See the text of “The Helsinki Final Act”, 1975; available at: http://www.osce.org/mc/39501?download=true.
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See text of “The Stockholm Document”, 1986; available at:http://www.osce.org/fsc/41238
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Under START I, the two superpowers were obliged to cut the number of their strategic nuclear warheads to no more than 6,000 each, which could be deployed on no more than 1,600 strategic missiles and heavy bombers. The treaty also banned the production, testing and deployment of new or modified ICBMs and SLBMs with more than ten warheads, and provided for intrusive verification procedures.
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Selim, G.M. (2013). Arms Control and Security Cooperation: Contending Approaches. In: Global and Regional Approaches to Arms Control in the Middle East. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace(), vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29314-6_2
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