The evolution of arms control : from antiquity to the nuclear age
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The evolution of arms control : from antiquity to the nuclear age
Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, c2009
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"Originally published in hard cover by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA. Copyright c2009 by Richard Dean Burns. Paperback edition by arrangement with ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA."--T.p. verso
"First Rowman & Littlefield edition published in 2013"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on his knowledge of the comparative history of warfare and arms control across preliterate, ancient, medieval, and modern polities, Richard Dean Burns focuses longitudinally on such perennial arms control issues as negotiation, verification, and compliance. Although he does not, for example, allege that war elephants and nuclear weapons are of equal destructive potential, he does discern instructive similarities between Carthage in 202 BCE and Iraq in 1991 AD.
Arms control and disarmament measures have been pursued and adopted throughout the history and prehistory of human warfare: sometimes as protocols recognizing evolving humanitarian taboos; sometimes as terms imposed by the victors on the vanquished; and sometimes as accords negotiated between rivals fearful of mutual destruction. Arms control measures ramped up in significance and urgency at the dawn of the 20th century by the introduction of rapid-fire weapons, aircraft, chemical agents, and submarines, and again at mid-century with the advent of weapons of mass destruction-nuclear, chemical, and bacteriological-with sophisticated delivery systems. As Burns makes clear, the enormous increase in destructive potential brought about by thermonuclear weaponry essentially changed the nature of war and, therefore, of arms control.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Means and Techniques: A Historical Typology
1. Arms Limitations and/or Reductions
2. Demilitarization, Denuclearization, and Neutralization
3. Regulating Use/Outlawing Weapons and War
4. Customs and the Law of War
6. Stabilizing the International Environment
Part II. Comments on Arms Control Processes: Negotiations, Verification, and Compliance
7. Arms Control Negotiations
8. The Verification Process
9. Compliance and Noncompliance
10. Reflections -On Nuclear Weaponry: The Cold War and After
Appendix (Chronological listing of treaties and agreements)
Notes
Glossary
Essential Resources
Index
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