Offering a nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control, this book describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their contemporary positions - and where they might go from here. It also shows that the complexities of arms control can be successfully explained in a nontechnical manner.

1 Front Matter; 2 1 Overview; 3 2 Strategic Offensive Nuclear Arms Control; 4 3 The Nuclear Freeze; 5 4 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Negotiations; 6 5 Strategic Defensive Arms Control: The SALT I Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty; 7 6 Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Arms Control; 8 7 Nuclear Test Bans; 9 8 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; 10 Acronyms; 11 Appendix A SALT I Interim Agreement on Strategic Offensive Arms; 12 Appendix B SALT II Treaty; 13 Appendix C SALT I ABM Treaty; 14 Appendix D Limited Test Ban Treaty; 15 Appendix E Threshold Test Ban Treaty; 16 Appendix F Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty; 17 Appendix G Non-Proliferation Treaty; 18 Index