TY - BOOK ID - 99988466 TI - Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace : The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control  PY - 2021 SN - 9781503629097 PB - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT--HISTORY UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:99988466 AB - The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too dangerous to succeed; it needed arms control to prevent nuclear warfare. So, U.S. and Soviet leaders ventured into the unknown to devise guardrails for nuclear arms control and to treat the Bomb differently than other weapons. Against the odds, they succeeded. Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare for three quarters of a century. This book is the first in-depth history of how the nuclear peace was won by complementing deterrence with reassurance, and then jeopardized by discarding arms control after the Cold War ended. ER -