Research Catalog

Title

Nuclear testing and national security / by Roger N. Fritzel.

Author

Fritzel, Roger N.

Publication

Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press ; Washington, D.C. : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

National Defense University. Research Directorate.

Description

viii, 107 pages; 20 cm

Summary

Since the 1950s, the United States has negotiated more than fifteen arms control agreements, several of which limited nuclear explosive testing by the signatories. Negotiations on another treaty on nuclear testing have been ongoing in Geneva since October 1977, between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. This treaty would go beyond previous agreements limiting nuclear testing and impose a total ban on all nuclear explosive testing. Proponents of this Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty suggest that it will inhibit the further spread of nuclear weapons technology, lessen the superpower arms race, and be a stabilizing force in world affairs. This monograph contends that US support of this agreement is inconsistent with the US doctrine of strategic nuclear deterrence. Without testing to modernize US nuclear weapons, the United States cannot have an effective nuclear deterrent force.

Series Statement

National security affairs monograph series ; 81-2

Uniform Title

National security affairs monograph series ; 81-2.

Subject

• Nuclear weapons > Testing
• National security > United States
• Military policy
• National security
• United States of America
• Nuclear weapons
• United States > Military policy
• United States

Genre/Form

Government publications

Note

• "Research Directorate."
• S/N 008-020-00915-6.
• Item 378-H.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-104).

LCCN

82603404

OCLC

• ocm08919251
• 8919251
• SCSB-1392373

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library