Superpower Arms Control

Setting the Record Straight

Book by Albert Carnesale, Editor and Richard Haass, Editor

Publisher – Ballinger Publishing Company

Release Date – Aug 1987

Pages – 376

ISBN 978-0887302299

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"Arms control is praised or damned but seldom is its history analyzed. This volume, commissioned by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, is detailed in its analysis and uses the evidence of its cases to assess propositions frequently made about the effects of arms control. For instance, do arms control agreements lull the United States into spending less on defense? Not by the book's evidence—quite the contrary."

--Foreign Affairs

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