Icarus Restrained - 9780367013233

Taylor & Francis

The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted. >  The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted. The study ends with the early 1960s by which time the central > Preface -- Delimiting the Approach -- Introduction -- The Cambridge Approach -- Arms Control as Political Instrument -- The Age of Atomic Innocence -- The Open World: Arms Control as an Instrument for Achieving Long-Term Political Stability -- Arms Control as Security Instrument -- From the Age of Innocence to the Balance of Terror: Nuclear Arm.