Arms Control and Disarmament: The Great Evasion.

The article focuses on the inordinate proportion of time and effort spent by researchers in the U.S. in the purpose of regulating and implementing arms control and disarmament. Such efforts are devoted to detecting, monitoring, and recording evasion or possible evasion efforts by the USSR, China, and other communist countries. However, the excessive effort of doing so has made the country appear to be overly defensive. The author believes that the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty has done nothing but compound the difficulties that it had with international relations. Furthermore, the author said that preoccupation with peripheral efforts which have only slight if any relevance to the broad strategic issues involving arms control is a dangerous business.