A New Cold War: In Search of a Nuclear Arms Treaty

Abstract

Since the 1960s, the United States has been engaged in nuclear arms control agreements related to the threat posed by nuclear weapons and has achieved drastic reductions in the number of nuclear weapons deployed around the globe. The Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has been the most widely accepted and most enduring agreement to influence nuclear arms related issues. The NPT established the basis for continued negotiations toward nuclear disarmament. It also signaled a shift in international norms to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons beyond the five recognized nuclear weapons states of China, France, the Russian Federation (formerly Soviet Union), United Kingdom, and the United States; a collective also known as the P5.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1107504

Entities

People

  • James Mccarty

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Lessons Learned
  • North Korea
  • Nuclear Warheads
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security