Arms Control and Disarmament

Paolo Foradori is Associate Professor of Political Science, School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy.Giampiero Giacomello is Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.Alessandro Pascolini is a theoretical physicist and senior scholar at the University of Padua, Italy. He is vice-president of ISODARCO.

“Arms Control and Disarmament makes a specific, well-documented, and fascinating point about arms control and about nuclear weaponry policies and challenges more broadly. … This book should be in all university libraries. While mainly focused on US and Soviet/Russian history, the broad-ranging and still relevant ideas allow the extension of the lessons learned to more current issues. Each essay is a masterpiece that deserves study. Building such a collection in one volume makes this a ‘must-have’ book.” (Sebastien Bleunven,H-Net Reviews Humanities and Social Sciences, networks.h-net.org, October, 2019)

• Introduction.- Part I - Early Attempts to Arms Control: 1966-1974.- 1. Technological Aspects of World Security (1966).- 2. Anti-Ballistic Missiles (1968).- 3. International Relations and Game Theory (1970).- 4. The Origins of Mirv (1972).- 5. The Importance of Agreements (1972).- 6. The Fallacy of Thinking Conventionally about Nuclear Weapons (1976).- 7. Strategic Arms Limitation and Military Strategic Concepts (1976).- Part II - The Hard Times: 1978-1989.- 8. Radiation Hazards in Fission Fuel Cycles (1978).- 9. The Dilemma of European Theatre Nuclear Arms Control (1980).- 10. Nuclear Arms Control: Obstacles to Agreement (1982).- 11. International Systemic Features Inhibiting Disarmament and Arms Control (1982).- 12. The Problem of the Nuclear First-Use Option (1988).- 13. The Problem of Extended Deterrence and International Security (1988).- 14. Minimum Deterrence and International Security (1988).- Part III - After the Cold War.- 15. Weapons on Earth and in Space(1992).- 16. The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the German Choice Not to Proliferate (1992).- 17. US-Russian Cooperation on Fissile Material Security and Disposition (1996).- 18. The New Verification Game and Technologies at our Disposal (1996).- 19. Nuclear Deterrence, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation (2010).- 20. Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella? Choices and Contradictions in US Proposals (2010).- Conclusion.