World Peace Accountability: A Proposal for Broadening East-West Dialogue

For a quarter-century the focus of East-West dialogue has been arms control, primarily control of strategic nuclear arms. This has produced such achievements as the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which at least slowed down the rate of the spread of nuclear arms. The potential of a nuclear Armageddon means that nuclear arms control will and should remain an important focus of East-West dialogue.