Naval Mining and Arms Control

Abstract

The challenge for U.S. arms-control policy is to recognize and balance competing national security, foreign policy, and economic interests. In the case of naval mines, the U.S. economy and defense industrial base concerns are essentially nil. Thus, control of naval mines should focus on the balance between national security and foreign policy. Then, because of the indiscriminate nature of naval mines, like that of land mines, several additional issues require attention. Can technology offer a discriminate or acceptable solution? Or would we prefer to have fewer mines available to adversaries that we would have to counter? Could naval mines serve as an arms-control bargaining chip?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA362435

Entities

People

  • Sabrina R. Edlow

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Commerce
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • International Trade
  • Land Mines
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • Naval Mines
  • Security
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Educational Psychology
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies