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David Tal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • us strategic Arms Policy in the cold war negotiation and confrontation over salt 1969 1979
    2017
    Co-Authors: David Tal
    Abstract:

    This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic Arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979. The negotiations on the limitation of strategic Arms, which were concluded in two agreements SALT I and SALT II (with only the first ratified), marked a major change in the history of Arms control negotiations. For the first time, in the relatively short history of nuclear weapons and negotiations over nuclear disarmament, the two major nuclear powers had agreed to put limits on the size of their nuclear strategic Arms. However, the negotiations between the US and USSR were the easy part of the process. The more difficult part was the negotiations among the Americans. Through the study of a decade of negotiations on the limitation of strategic Arms in the Cold War, this book examines the forces that either allowed US presidents and senior officials to pave a path toward a US Arms limitation Policy, or prevented them from doing so. Most importantly, the book discusses the meaning of these negotiations and agreements on the limitation of strategic Arms, and seeks to identify the intention of the negotiators: Were they aiming at making the world a safer place? What was the purpose of the negotiations and agreements within US strategic thinking, both militarily and diplomatically? Were they aimed at improving relations with the Soviet Union, or only at enhancing the strategic balance as one component of the strategic nuclear deterrence between the two powers? This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, Arms control, US foreign Policy and international relations in general.

Christoph Bluth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • soviet strategic Arms Policy before salt
    1992
    Co-Authors: Christoph Bluth
    Abstract:

    List of abbreviations List of tables Acknowledgements Part I. Soviet Strategic Arms Policy - The General Framework: 1. Introduction 2. Decision-making in the Soviet Union 3. Strategic nuclear power and foreign Policy objectives 4. Soviet military doctrine and Policy 5. Party-military relations and strategic Arms Policy Part II. Soviet Decision-Making in Strategic Arms Policy: 6. The development of strategic bombers in the Soviet Union 7. Soviet ICBM deployment: two case studies 8. Soviet strategic nuclear power at sea 9. Strategic defence 10. The military uses of space 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography.

Reza Eltiami Nia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • explaining israel s strategic position in us Arms Policy in the middle east
    International Studies Journal (ISJ), 2019
    Co-Authors: Hamid Dorj, Reza Eltiami Nia
    Abstract:

    Israel is a strategic alley of the United States in the Middle East. US-Israeli mutual interests have gone so far as to be expressed in the form of special relations.The United States supports the Zionist regime for a series of political, strategic and cultural reasons. These two countries are deeply concerned about the increase in Iran's missile capabilities and in this regard they have turned to Arms trade to weaken and reduce Iran's military capabilities. The present article seeks to clarify common interests of the United States and Israel as determining factors in US-Israeli relations in political, military and security dimensions. Therefore, the key question of the paper is what position does Israel have in US Arms Policy in the Middle East? The paper assumes that since Iran's long-term missile development and capability poses a two-way strategic threat to the US and Israel, therefore the two countries have been cooperating with the aim of controlling and altering Iran's missile power in pursuit of joint strategic interests and increasing missile deterrence against Iran which will lead to a huge Arms race in the region. The present research is based on descriptive-analytic method and will be based on the conceptual framework of special relations.

Bluth Christoph - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Susan Waltz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • u s small Arms Policy having it both ways
    World Policy Journal, 2007
    Co-Authors: Susan Waltz
    Abstract:

    weapons had been stored, even as the superpowers and their allies averted their gaze from the conflicts that had once engaged them. Fresh supplies of assault rifles and other easily portable weapons began flooding conflict zones, threatening life and livelihood of the world's poorest peoples. In October 2000, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan soberly announced that the annual death toll from small Arms regularly exceeded the carnage wrought at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No less than the atomic bombs that devastated those cities, he argued, smaller weapons should be recognized as "weapons of mass destruction." The United States formally undertook to address the growing concern, promising to "promote regional security, peace and reconciliation in regions of conflict and to make the world safer by helping to shut down illicit Arms markets that fuel the violence associated with terrorism and international organized crime." Washington offered strong support for the recommendations of a UN Panel of Experts on Small Arms, and in December 2000 pledged to observe the highest standards of restraint in its own small Arms export policies. Senior government officials frequently hold up U.S. laws, practices, and enforcement procedures as an effective model for other nations to follow. Even analysts and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are otherwise critical have lauded U.S. Policy. In 2005, the independent Small Arms Survey ranked the U.S. first among 25 countries in its Transparency Barometer, with a score of 16 out of 20 on an index assessing export reporting practices. Similarly, a consortium of NGOs reviewing state efforts to implement the UN's 2001 action plan on small Arms gave the United States mostly high marks for its Policy and programs. The Congressional Research Service (crs) in 2006 summed up the consensus: "The export licensing and monitoring laws, regulations and procedures of the United States are widely acknowledged to be the most