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Averting doomsday : arms control during the Nixon presidency /

"This book shows how the Nixon administration proved a critical juncture in US efforts to limit the number and to control the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Garrity, Patrick J.
Group Author: Mahan, Erin R., 1969-
Published: University of Virginia Press,
Publisher Address: Charlottesville, Virginia :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II.
1900-1999
Nuclear weapons > United States > History > 20th century.
Arms control > History > 20th century.
Arms control.
Diplomatic relations.
Military policy.
Nuclear weapons.
United States > Military policy > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 1969-1974.
United States.
History.
Summary: "This book shows how the Nixon administration proved a critical juncture in US efforts to limit the number and to control the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons"--
Carrier Form: xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780813946696
0813946697
Index Number: E855
CLC: E928-097.12
E712.0-09
Call Number: E712.0-09/G242
Contents: Nixon's arms control inheritance -- National security landscape and arms control agenda -- Two paths: Biological and chemical weapons control -- Nixon's crown jewel of arms control: SALT and ABM -- Nuclear nonproliferation and a strategy of ambivalence -- Unfinished business of SALT II -- Reconciling nuclear testing with arms control -- Legacies and implications.

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