Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation / Edition 1

by Henry D. Sokolski

Overview

Although the United States efforts to prevent the spread of strategic weapons have varied significantly since 1945, they all presumed to be avoiding one or another type of strategic war. To the extent their military scenarios were sound, so too were the nonproliferation remedies these initiatives promoted. But, as Sokolski demonstrates, the obverse was also true—when these intiatives' military hopes and fears were mistaken, their nonproliferation recommendations also missed their mark.

What is the best hope for breaking out of this box and securing a higher rate of nonproliferation success? The United States must base nonproliferation policies less on insights concerning strategic military trends and more on the progressive economic and political trends that have increased the number of relatively peaceful, prosperous, liberal democracies. For the proliferating nations that are exceptions to this trend, the U.S. and its allies need to devise ways of competing that will encourage these governments to expend more energies shoring up their weaknesses and eventually giving way to less militant regimes. A major resource for students and military professionals interested in arms control and international relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275972899
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/2001
Series:	Praeger Security International
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

HENRY D. SOKOLSKI is Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center./e From 1989 to early 1993 Mr. Sokolski served as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Cheney. In addition to his government service, Mr. Sokolski has lectured and written extensively on proliferation issues.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jim Woolsey
Preface
The First Half Century
The Baruch Plan
Atoms for Peace
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Proliferation Technology Control Regimes
Counterproliferation
The Next Campaign
Appendix I: The Baruch Plan, Presented to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946
Appendix II: President Eisenhower's Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, December 8, 1953
Appendix III: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Appendix IV: Multilateral Export Control Regimes: Membership and Related Websites
Appendix V: Secretary of Defense Les Aspin's Remarks before the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control. December 7, 1993
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Sokolski directs the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and was an adviser in the early 1990s to then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. His history focuses on the logic and intent of nuclear nonproliferation initiatives<-->including the Baruch Plan, the Atoms for Peace Program, and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty<-->to compare what each hoped to achieve with what they actually accomplished. He explores what worked, what didn't, and why in an effort to provide signposts for how policies can do better in the future. He writes that his analysis is intended for lay readers as well as students and teachers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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