Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in every major area of arms control under active negotiation: strategic and conventional force reductions, a chemical weapons ban, and the vitality of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty regime. Also included is a fascinating account of the implementation of the INF Treaty through on-site inspections to verify missile destruction by the director of the U.S. On-Site Inspection Agency, Brigadier General Roland Lajoie. Roald Sagdeev, a prominent Soviet scientist and expert on security matters, offers his views of the Soviet Union's restructuring of its approach to national and international security. Also featured are essays by Wolfgang Panofsky, R. James Woolsey, Paul Doty, Matthew Meselson, Spurgeon Keeny, and Marvin Goldberger.

The decade of the 1990s offers a chance to build a new and better international order. What policy choices will this decade pose for the United States? This wide-ranging volume of essays imaginatively addresses these crucial issues. The peaceful revolutions of 1989-1990 in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have swept away the foundations of the Cold War. The Eastern European nations are free; Europe is no longer divided; Germany is united. The Soviet threat to Western Europe is ending with the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the withdrawals and asymmetrical cuts of Soviet forces. And U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Third World is giving way to cooperation in handling conflicts, as in Iraq and elsewhere. Much, of course, remains uncertain and unsettled. What sort of Soviet Union will emerge from the ongoing turmoil, with what political and economic system and what state structure? How far and how soon will the Eastern Euro pean states succeed in developing pluralist democracies and market economies? Are the changes irreversible? Certainly there will be turmoil, backsliding, and failures, but a return to the Cold War hardly seems likely.

Completely revised and updated, this is an exhaustive analysis of national and international arms control: its history, philosophy, achievements and future prospects as well as its political, military and economic ramifications. Includes the complete text of the SALT II treaty and texts of major arms control agreements. ISBN 0-8047-1211-5 : $45.00; ISBN 0-8047-1212-0 (pbk.) : $16.95.

"Key to any arms control agreement are its provisions for verification and compliance. Verification questions will retain their fundamental importance as the U.S. debates arms control proposals in Geneva and Vienna, in the halls of Congress, in the news media, in symposia, and perhaps in the electoral process. What limitations on conventional and nuclear weapons are we safe in accepting and at what levels? U.S. verification capabilities are an essential part of this debate. A collection of insightful essays by the leading experts on verification issues, Verification: The Key to Arms Control in the 1990s makes a valuable contribution to the rational and responsible discussion of arms control."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved