In this work, an expert on biological weapons offers a thoughtful examination of the political and technical issues that have affected the implementation of arms control agreements from the 1960s to the present.Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues examines the history of the major arms control treaties since the early 1960s. It offers readers a broad understanding of the ways in which arms control agreements were negotiated and implemented during the Cold War, the international and national events that affected treaty negotiation and implementation, and how the arms control landscape has changed in the war's aftermath. Specifically, the handbook overviews the obligations contained in bilateral U.S.-Soviet/Russian and multilateral arms control agreements covering nuclear and nonnuclear weapons. It also treats such agreements as the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, and the Treaty to Ban Cluster Munitions. The book concludes with a look at the current challenges in the implementation of arms control agreements and the future of arms control.

AcknowledgmentsAcronymsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Controlling the Growth of Nuclear Weapons and Delivery Systems: Nuclear Arms Control between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russian FederationChapter 3 Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control: Controlling the Spread and Testing of Nuclear WeaponsChapter 4 Controlling Biological and Chemical WeaponsChapter 5 Controlling Antipersonnel Land Mines, Cluster Munitions, and Explosive Remnants of WarChapter 6 ConclusionAppendix: Guide to TreatiesBibliographyIndex