title: Preface
abstract: After more than fifty years of service as a tool that has enhanced international security and helped prevent nuclear war, we could soon face a world without formal strategic arms control treaties. Less-formal cooperative security arrangements may fill the void in limiting the dangers of an uncontrolled world populated by revanchist states with growing arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, but that is far from certain. This book is an effort to educate the current generation on the past value 
journal: Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks