Arms Control: Strategy Perspective

In many quarters, arms control is understood as a means of preserving a nation’s vital interests while minimizing the economic cost and maximizing the military effectiveness of security. See, Thompson W. Scott Kiernan Robert E. , “Startegy and Arms Control: Political Will and Public Diplomacy” in Starr Richard F. (ed.), Arms Control: Myth and Reality (California: Hoover Institution Press, 1984). pp. 76–77.

See Laird Robbin F. Herspring Dale R. , The Soviet Union and Strategic Arms (Boulder: Westview, 1984), pp. 10–11.

Ibid ., p. 90.

Sokolovskii V.D. (ed.), Soviet Military Strategy (Santa Monica: RAND, 1963). p. 299.

Ibid ., p. 305.

Krepon Michael , Strategic Stalemate: Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), p. 30. See also in this context, Enthoven Alain Smith Wayne K. , How Much Is Enough? (New York: Harper and Row. 1971).

Norman Polmer , Strategic Weapons (New York: Crane Russak, 1982), p. 4.

Snow Donald M. , Nuclear Strategy in a Dynamic World (Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981). p. 82.

Lee William T. , Understanding the Soviet Military Threat (New York: National Startegy Information Center, 1977), p. 44. Quoted in Snow. No. 8. p. 139.

Palit D.K. , War in the Deterrent Age (London: Macdonald, 1966), p. 153.

Gray Colin S. Payne Keith , “Victory is Possible”. Foreign Policy, No. 39, Summer 1980, p. 21. In 1988, Gray proceeded to argue: “Theoretically, arms races, crises and even wars can be won in the nuclear age. Moreover, painful though a nuclear victory would certainly be, there is no good reason to suppose that such a victory must be virtually indistinguishable from defeat or that such a victory would not be worth attaining…” Gray Colin S. Nuclear Strategy and National Style (London: Hamilton Press, 1986), pp. 259–60.

Alexiev Alex R. , “The Soviet Campaign against INF: Strategy, Tactics and Means”. Orbis, Summer 1985, p. 319.

Holloway David , The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), p. 72.

Dean Jonathan , “Gorbachev’s Arms Control Moves”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1987, p. 37.

For elaboration on these points see Majumdar Anindyo J. , “Arms Control, Alliances and Military Balance: Illusion and Reality”, Strategic Analysis, August 1995, pp. 711–28.

See Arkin William and Norris Robert , “Tinynukes for Mini Minds”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1992, pp. 24–25.

The Hindustan Times (New Delhi), September 13, 1994, p. 14.

A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement, The White House, U.S.A., February 1996.