Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that the United States has occasionally used to implement its national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behavior of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain the U.S. military forces and operations, many others see them as an effective means to promote transparency, ease military planning, limit forces, and protect against uncertainty and surprise. Arms control and nonprolif...

Provides a comprehensive overview of arms control and nonproliferation issues to include the treaties (NPT, CWC, BWC) devised, historical context from a pre and post Cold War environment, proliferation challenges, specific WMD concerns including agent types/delivery systems, and the actions taken by world leaders on these issues.