Yesterday's Arms Control Will Not Prevent Nuclear War

Robert H. Kupperman and Debra van Opstal

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1988, vol. 500, issue 1, 59-72

Abstract: Even as prospects for direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation have decreased, the potential for international collision almost everywhere else is on the rise. Although arms control remains an important long-term issue in superpower relations, the United States and Soviet Union face a more imminent danger of unwanted nuclear escalation through the actions of unstable, unpredictable, and well-armed states in the Third World. This suggests that a better U.S. policy balance must be struck between central strategic threats, to which U.S. resources and attention have been devoted for forty years, and regional conflicts, for which there is a notable lack of contingency planning and a growing record of U.S. failure.

Date: 1988
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