Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1997. presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. viii, 110, [2] pages. Boxes. Notes. Appendixes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) is a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences. CISAC was created in 1980 to bring the Academy's scientific and technical talent to bear on crucial problems of peace and security. This report was based on an exhaustive reexamination of the issues addressed tin the Committee's 1991 report on The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship. It describes the state to which U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and policies have evolved since the Cold War ended, the reasons why further evolution is desirable, and the shape of a regime of progressive constraints responses to these reasons. It concludes with a discussion of the conditions and means under which, in the longer term, it could becomes desirable and feasible to prohibit the possession of nuclear weapons altogether. More

Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. ix, [1], 31, [3] pages. Within the next decade, many thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are slated to be retired as a result of nuclear arms reduction treaties and unilateral pledges. A hundred tons or more of plutonium and tons of highly enriched uranium will no longer be needed. The management and disposition of these fissile materials, the essential ingredients of nuclear weapons, pose urgent challenges for international security. This is the Executive Summary of the report which offers recommendations for all phases of the problem, from dismantlement of excess warheads, through intermediate storage of the fissile materials they contain, to ultimate disposition of the plutonium. More

Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1989. Fourth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. x, 378, [2] pages. Table. Acronyms. Appendix A-G, Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This include a list of the members of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control, Foreword by Frank Press. Preface by Marvin L. Goldberger. Chapters include: Overview, Strategic Offensive Nuclear Arms Control, The Nuclear Freeze, The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Negotiations, Strategic Defense Arms Control: The SALT I Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Arms Control, Nuclear Test Bans, and Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Appendices are: Appendix A SALT I Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms; Appendix B SALT II Treaty; Appendix C SALT I ABM Treaty; Appendix D Limited Test Ban Treaty; Appendix E Threshold Test Ban Treaty; Appendix F Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty; and Appendix G Non-Proliferation Treaty. This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present positions--and where they might go from here. According to Foreign Affairs, "This book is proof that the complexities of arms control can be successfully explained in a nontechnical, and even more importantly, nonpartisan manner. . . . It presents the key issues in a clear, thorough, and remarkably up-to-date way. . . . Strongly recommended as a primary source for classroom and public discussions." Arms control is a term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. More

Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 23 cm. viii, [2], 70 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Frank Press. Contains material on the impact of defenses on offensive reduction regimes, noncentral systems, and alliance issues. No more important issue faces us today than the future success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. Reykjavik and Beyond represents the careful consideration of this subject by a group of experts deeply involved in arms control. The authors consider what changes in force structures, strategic thought, and political relations would be necessary to make possible large reductions in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals. They also examine how very deep cuts would affect other aspects of the military balance and the political and international order more broadly. More

Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 250 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (figures, tables and boxes). Acronyms. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Among the members were: John Steinbruner, Susan Eisenhower, Richard Garwin, Rose Gottemoeller, Spurgeon Keeney, Albert Narath, and Wolfgang Panofsky. In the United States and many other countries, policy-makers are working to minimize the proliferation of nuclear weapons, prevent terrorists from acquiring them, and reduce the risks posed by existing nuclear arsenals. A new report from the National Academy of Sciences addresses the technical and institutional approaches and capabilities in transparency and monitoring that could be applied to any or all of these goals. The report does not analyze or make recommendations about the choices in U.S. nuclear weapon and nonproliferation policies or priorities that will continue to shape the context within which such approaches and capabilities might be applied. Save Cancel Bottom of Form 1 dressed not only nuclear issues, but also those connected with chemical and biological weapons, space weaponry and national missile defense, and conventional forces and the arms trade. More