Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul H. Nitze

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. Politics, Louisville and Washington, D.C.

2. Chemical and Biological Weapons

3. SALT I

4. SALT II, Part One: The Nixon-Ford Years

5. SALT II, Part Two: The Carter Years

6. The Reagan Revolution and the INF and START Treaties

7. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

8. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty

9. Survival of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

10. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

11. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

12. NPT Aftermath and the End of the ACDA

Epilogue

Conclusions

Glossary

Index

Promotional Information

A memoir of the key negotiations which have substantially reduced the threat of nuclear war over the last 30 years

About the Author

Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. is president of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, based in Washington, D.C. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for fifteen years. As President Clinton's special representative for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, he led the successful U.S. government effort to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 1996, he led a worldwide effort to successfully support the conclusion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations. He has taught at Stanford University, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and University of Washington.

Reviews

"Graham's book is both a memoir and an excellent history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, with which he was involved for more than 30 years. . . . [I]t is an intimate history of events in which he was a major player."
*Choice*

"The SALT, the START, the ABM—Graham had a role in them all, and his detailed descriptions of the skirmishes among presidents, cabinet secretaries, and members of Congress through six White House administrations make for a comprehensive history of American arms control."
*Publishers Weekly*

"Provides a fascinating composite picture of the limits and possibilities of the legal-diplomatic approach to security and arms control. Graham and his colleagues were constantly forced to maneuver between their determined Soviet counterparts and the equally strong-willed politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. . . . Also illuminating are his chapters on the failed SALT II during the Carter and Reagan years and the rise of hard-line critics of arms control, showing the origins of the split in American strategic thinking that continues today. More optimistically, Graham concludes by pointing to the most lasting arms control success: the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which made the acquisition of nuclear weapons an act of international outlawry."
*Foreign Affairs*

"[This book] is a very important historical document and will undoubtedly be consulted by historians of arms control and American foreign policy in the late twentieth century. Students of bureaucratic politics and organizational behavior will also find in this book a rich mine of ase study material."
*Political Science Quarterly*