Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law

Graham, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0295982128 / ISBN 13: 9780295982120

Published by University of Washington Press, 2002

About this Item

As a government lawyer and diplomat, Graham had a hand in shaping most of this era's major arms-control agreements, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties (SALT I and II), the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty, and the conventions prohibiting chemical and biological weapons. This memoir is long on the details of treaty negotiations but nonetheless provides a fascinating composite picture of the limits and possibilities of the legal-diplomatic approach to security and arms control. in excellent condition, inscribed by the author. Size: 6½" - 9½" First printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295982128
• ISBN 13: 9780295982120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones of international security as SALT, START, and the ABM, INF, and CFE treaties as well as conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons.

Graham’s memoir offers a history of the key negotiations which have substantially reduced the threat of nuclear war. His is a personal account of bureaucratic battles over arms control in six administrations, navigating among the White House, Congress, cabinet secretaries, and agencies with overlapping responsibilities and often competing interests. No comparable text brings together detailed analyses of so many pivotal documents in the history of the Cold War; it offers abundant primary source material for historians, international lawyers, and arms control specialists around the world. Disarmament Sketches also charts the rise and fall of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the only U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for arms control policy, and lays out an agenda for continuing progress in reducing weapons stockpiles around the globe.

Throughout his career, Graham has worked tirelessly to reverse the nuclear arms race and to persuade leaders around the world to make their nations safer by renouncing and reducing their weapons of mass destruction.

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.