Arms Control and the Cold War

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In seven pages the many attempts at arms control during the Cold War era are examined in terms of the plan of Bernard Baruch, MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction principle, SALT I and II, ABM treaties, European reaction to 'flexible response,' French leadership bid, Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt, Nixon and China, MBFR, Helsinki, INF treaty and the Stategic Defense Initiative or SDI of Ronald Reagan. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography.