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The chapter offers a sober reflection of disarmament, assessing the many international systemic features inhibiting the elimination of nuclear weapons. While the maximalist goal of complete abolition is described as unattainable under the existing circumstances, the chapter advocates more minimalistic but achievable objectives, such as gradual and limited measures of arms control covering only some countries and specific categories of weapons.
Originally published in David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf, eds., Reassessing Arms Control (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984): 28–35.
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Official Journal of the League of Nations 9 (May 1928).
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Ibid.
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Nikolaj Lenin, “The Disarmament,” first published in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata 2 (December 1916) reprinted in The Collected Works of Vladimir I. Lenin, vol. 19, 2nd Russian edition (Moscow: Progress Publishers 1964): 326.
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Quoted in Henry W. Forbes, The Strategy of Disarmament (Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1962): 47–48.
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Carlton, D. (2018). International Systemic Features Inhibiting Disarmament and Arms Control. In: Foradori, P., Giacomello, G., Pascolini, A. (eds) Arms Control and Disarmament. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62259-0_11
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