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This book, first published in 1982, provides a well-informed historical overview, insightful analysis and searching critique of arms control agreements and negotiations from the Hague Declaration of 1899 to the SALT Treaties and Conventions of the 1970s and 1980s. Arms control agreements of international importance and historical merit are assessed, for the extent to which each affected the arms race or reduced the likelihood of war.
`Jozef Goldblat, one of the foremost authorities in this field, has compiled a veritable encyclopedia of arms control.... He is authoritative on both the more prominent topics, such as nuclear non-proliferation and verification, and those which are less widely understood.... Free of jargon, comprehensive on the facts, concise in analysis, this is a work of topical relevance and lasting value' - Bulletin of Arms Control Available in paperback for the first time, this comprehensive volume provides an historical overview of arms control. Jozef Goldblat analyzes all international arms control agreements reached since the later part of the nineteenth century through to mid-1993, and he also provides the complete t
A unique and indispensible work that serves both as a basic introduction to the disarmament scene and a reference book for experts' - "Disarmament Times " The revised and updated edition of Arms Control: The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements contains the most authoritative and comprehensive survey ever published of the documents related to arms control.
This volume studies the obstacles to nuclear disarmament and the ways to overcome them. Under the direction of Jozef Goldblat, a distinguished arms control specialist, renowned security scholars analyse the prerequisites and conditions for de-nuclaerisation region-by-region and identify the political, technological and economic requirements to achieve a nuclear free world.
How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of authoritative expertise and opinion as an informed contribution to the debate among governmental experts and the informed public.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
"This course of Jozef Goldblat, senior lecturer and research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, focuses on the nuclear non-proliferation régime. Josef Glodblat starts his course with an overview of the early efforts to outlaw nuclear weapons. The author then presents the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (the ban on the transfer or the acquisition of nuclear weapons, control measures and their implementation, possibility to peacefully use nuclear energy, obligation of disarmament and its implementation, final clauses, violations of the treaty). Lastly, Jozef Goldblat pays attention to the NPT security assurances, to the agreements aiming to reinforce the treaty, to the denuclearized zones, to the revision and the extension of the NPT, and to the future of nuclear weapons"--Publisher's description.