Milestones in strategic arms control 1945-2000...

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Page 206 - not to give missiles, launchers, or radars, other than ABM interceptor missiles, ABM launchers, or ABM radars, capabilities to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight trajectory, and not to test them in an ABM mode.
Page 211 - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, "a State is obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty,
Page 9 - is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. That is why Great Britain and the United States, who have the secret of its production, do not intend to reveal the secret until means have been found to control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger of total destruction.
Page 100 - was an Interim Agreement on Certain Measures with Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. This was
Page 56 - adequate for simultaneously meeting a major Communist attack in either Europe or Asia, assisting Allies against non-Chinese threats in Asia, and contending with a contingency elsewhere.
Page 206 - an ABM system is a system to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight trajectory.
Page 5 - I desire no sort of participation by the Air Service of the United States in a plan . . . which has as its object promiscuous bombing upon industry, commerce, or populations in enemy countries disassociated from obvious military needs to be served by such action.
Page 143 - Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in.
Page 260 - different groups pulling in different directions produce a result, or better a resultant—a mixture of conflicting preferences and unequal power of various individuals—distinct from what any person or group intended.
Page 152 - sides . . . agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

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