the future of arms control

TeAM YYeP G Digitally signed by TeAM YYePG DN: cn=TeAM YYePG, c=US, o=TeAM YYePG, ou=TeAM YYePG, email=yyepg@msn.com Reason: I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Date: 2005.04.26 19:16:38 +08'00' [...]... production, and use of the world’s most threatening technologies—in other words, arms control is imperative But the old ways of pursuing arms control are mostly obsolete, and the very definition of the term requires refinement and reinterpretation A new arms control framework designed for a new world is urgently needed.1 In the years that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, traditional arms control did not... as the end of the cold war permeates both countries’ bureaucracies Rather than assuming that the shape of one side’s forces determines the shape of the other’s and investing efforts in more detailed U.S.-Russian arms control, further efforts should be directed at shaking up the nuclear planning establishments, breaking them of their residual cold war habits If some would return to cold war arms control, ... unsustainably, demanding that other countries accept a lower standard of national security Arms Control Criteria for Today’s World Four decades ago, Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin set forth the principles that would dominate the arms control consensus for the duration of the cold war In their seminal book, Strategy and Arms Control, they defined arms control as “all the forms of military cooperation... proliferators, arms control can have the even more desirable effect of deterring proliferation in the first place Arms Control Must Address the Security of Nations That Do Not Have Weapons of Mass Destruction For several decades, the world’s nuclear powers have understood that they must offer other states incentives not to pursue nuclear arms of their 14 introduction and rationale own The 1968 Nuclear... war arms control, others would abandon arms control altogether Indeed, some arms control critics dismiss not only cold war paradigms, but also the entire enterprise of negotiating controls on dangerous weapons and technologies This is a mistake It ignores the seriousness of the global threats that arms control attempts to address while overestimating the universal applicability of other policy tools,... critic of much previous arms control, Ronald Reagan wound up working with Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev to achieve some of the most dramatic arms limitation breakthroughs of the cold war, in a process that played out into the first Bush presidency and the early years of the Clinton administration But once the cold war ended, the consensus that had undergirded arms control for so long began to crumble The. .. countries—notably the small arms trade Small arms are the weapons of mass destruction in much of the developing world, and a strong humanitarian rationale therefore exists for seeking to limit their use and spread In addition, if the United States expects the help of most other countries in countering the most serious threats to its own security, it must promote an arms control strategy that responds to the needs... rejecting arms control altogether It should be clear already that the goals of arms control must change— and that so must the conception of acceptable methods of control Halperin and Schelling’s restrictive requirement that arms control must involve “military cooperation between potential enemies” made sense during the cold war Such a formulation was automatic for a program conceived during the height of the. .. for future arms control, with the important exception of ensuring that nuclear materials and warheads are not vulnerable to theft or transfer Many supporters of traditional arms control have expressed dismay at what has happened to the process of negotiating and implementing strategic arms accords, particularly between the U.S and Russia The strongest complaints have concerned the abandonment of the. .. process, which addressed U.S and Russian strategic arms; the lack of binding mechanisms in the 2002 Moscow Treaty between the United States and Russia on offensive arms reductions; the demise of the ABM Treaty in the same year; and the potential for an arms race in outer space Proponents of deeper bilateral arms control typically cite three reasons for reversing these shifts First, some refer to classic stability . words, arms control is imperative. But the old ways of pursuing arms control are mostly obsolete, and the very definition of the term requires refinement and reinterpretation. A new arms control. some of the most dramatic arms limitation breakthroughs of the cold war, in a process that played out into the first Bush presidency and the early years of the Clinton administration. But once the. and the demands of traditional diplomacy, most practitioners of American foreign policy—on the left and on the right—recognized the broad importance of arms control as a necessary means of keeping