Review: Arms and Doctrine: Nuclear Proliferation
| Author | Frank Barnaby |
| Published date | 01 September 1978 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207803300314 |
| Date | 01 September 1978 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
ARMS
AND
DOCTRINE
631
book
would
come
away
convinced
that
existing
United
States
arms
con-
trol
ideas
were
all
they
would
ever
need
to know,
and
that
the resulting
United
States
policies,
in
terms
of arms
control,
strategy,
and
super-
power
relations,
were
deficient
only
in
their
failure
to
follow
through
the
logic of
these ideas.
Any
critics
of
these
ideas,
policies,
or
agree-
ments would
appear
as
a
misguided
minority,
whose
criticisms
were
discredited.
This
was
clearly
not
an
accurate reflection
of the
arms
control
debate
when
this
book
went
to
the
printers (apparently in
late
1975;
no precise
date
is
given)
and
the
debate
has
intensified
since
then.
The
book
is
in-
adequate
as
a
text
because
it
fails
to
provide
any
guide
to
the
various
schools
of arms
control,
whilst
its
version
of
events, especially
the
nego-
tiations and
agreements
of the Strategic
Arms
Limitation
Talks
(sALT),
although
summarizing
much
useful
information,
is
partisan and,
in
many instances,
wrong.
For
example,
allegations
of
Russian
violations
of,
and/or
exploitations
of
ambiguities
in,
SALT I
are
dismissed
in
seven
lines
(p
222)
which
include
acceptance of
Russian
defences
against
these
charges.
This
was
a
major
issue
on
which
critics
of
the
authors'
position
have
been
supported
by
subsequent
events.
Adding
the
full
texts
of
major
arms
control
agreements
(pp
329-419)
and
a
list
of
readings
supporting
the
authors'
views
does
not
make
a
work
of
advocacy
a
text;
it
does
add
to
the
length
and
price.
It
is
dis-
appointing
that
so
able
and
experienced
a
group
should
have
not
pro-
duced
the
text
they
could,
by
recognizing
that
theirs
is
not
the
only
view
of
arms
control,
or at
least
by
acknowledging
their
bias
in
the
text.
Robin
Ranger/St
Francis
Xavier
University
NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION
Motivations,
Capabilities,
and
Strategies
for
Control
Ted
Greenwood,
Harald
A.
Feiveson,
Theodore
B.
Taylor
New
York:
Toronto:
McGraw-Hill
Ryerson,
1977,
xii,
2
1opp,
$9.85
hardcover,
$5-45
paper
Since
the
1974
Indian
nuclear
explosion
so
much
has
been
said
and
written about
the
political
aspects
of
the
nuclear
proliferation
problem
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