Abstract
Arms control is but one of a series of alternative approaches to achieving international security through military strategies. Although the basic idea of arms control has its roots in the nineteenth century, the rise of modern arms control as a theory and practice can be traced to the Cold War era as an outcome of the American-Soviet nuclear arms race. In fact, arms control started to assume considerable importance in the field of security studies toward the late 1960s when the two superpowers entered their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Vienna and Helsinki in 1969 and concluded their first arms control agreement, SALT I, in 1972. Since then, the Americans, the Soviets and the Europeans have spent more than 30 years in discussing, negotiating, and signing different agreements on arms control in both the nuclear and the conventional fields.
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