Arms Control Theorists of the 1950s

The corruption of international society? General and complete disarmament from the perspective of the practitioners

“… 3 Studies do exist of the history of international thought in relation to disarmament, arms control and the evolution of strategic thinking in general, and particularly in the United States. See, for example, Kaplan (1983), Trachtenberg (1989), Sims (1990), Kuklick (2006) and Munster and Sylvest (2016). However, less attention has been paid to the history of the ideas put forward by diplomats in the course of the actual international disarmament deliberations, and no conscious attempt seems to have been made to relate these ideas to the institutions of international society, which I shall say more about below. …”