224 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the changing role of Congress based on various arms control issues: SALT, nonproliferation, arms sales and weapons procurement. It discusses such topical subjects as the role of secrecy in arms negotiations.
1. Congress and Arms Control: A Historical Perspective, 1969–1976 2. The Congressional Resource Problem 3. The Power of Procedure 4. Politics of the Purse 5. The Foreign Relations Committee and the Future of Arms Control 6. The Control of United States Arms Sales 7. Congress and Nonproliferation, 1945–1977 8. Secrecy in Arms Control Negotiations 9. A European Perspective 10. How Congress Can Shape Arms Control 11. Afterword
Biography
Alan Platt is special assistant for congressional relations, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has previously been legislative assistant for foreign affairs to Senator Edmund Muskie and research associate of Stanford University’s Arms Control and Disarmament Program.
