1st Edition

Once and Future Partners The US, Russia, and Nuclear Non-proliferation

Edited By William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood Copyright 2018
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

Despite their Cold War rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union frequently engaged in joint efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Leaders in Washington and Moscow recognized that nuclear proliferation would serve neither country’s interests even when they did not see eye-to-eye in many other areas. They likewise understood why collaboration in mitigating this nuclear danger... Read more
 Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1. The origins of US-Soviet non-proliferation cooperation

2. The 1977 South Africa nuclear crisis

3. Peaceful nuclear explosives: from the Limited Test Ban Treaty to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

4. Two NPT Snapshots—and Some Lessons and Implications for Rebuilding US-Russian Cooperation

5. The establishment of the London Club and nuclear-export controls

6. US-Soviet Cooperation on IAEA Safeguards: patterns of interaction and their applicability beyond the Cold War

7. Negotiating the Draft Radiological Weapons Convention: A Case of U.S.-Soviet Cooperation

8. Lessons for the Future

Biography

Dr. William Potter directs the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and is the Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Trained as a Sovietologist, he has participated as a delegate at every NPT meeting since 1995.

Sarah Bidgood is a senior research associate and project manager at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Her research interests include US-Russia relations and the international non-proliferation regime.