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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University of Virginia Press,
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Publisher Address: | Charlottesville, Virginia : |
Publication Dates: | 2021. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Miller Center Studies on the Presidency
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"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. |