Moving away from MAD

Survival

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 81-96

  Krepon, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0040968772     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/survival/43.2.81     Document Type: Article

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1. Take, for example, the 1991 unilateral and reciprocal arrangements carried out by presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, removing the least safe and secure nuclear weapons from operational status. Ten years later, press reports indicate that some of these tactical nuclear weapons have been returned to the Baltic region, presumably to compensate for Russian conventional military weaknesses. Bill Gertz, 'Russia transfers nuclear arms to Baltics,' Washington Times, 3 January 2001. Nonetheless, the 1991 Bush-Gorbachev initiatives were widely applauded at the time, and continue to be viewed in a positive light.