A review by mpodguski
Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament by James M. Smith, Jeffrey a. Larsen

5.0

This book was certainly expensive... but it is beyond worthwhile to make the investment in purchasing it. This is the GOLD STANDARD in reference texts for arms control and disarmament. This book has complete timelines of all dates (including day and year) for all arms control and disarmament efforts (beginning in 1100 B.C. with the Israeli-Philistine Term of Peace and going through the 2004 Russian Open Skies overflight of the United States), along with detailed explanations of histories behind the agreements, definitions of terms/people/agents/weapons/treaties/protocols/etc., and everything you could want, need, or imagine in a reference source on arms control. Basically, this book is the complete dictionary AND encyclopedia on arms control... and the attention to detail by the authors is shown in the thorough accuracy of the authors' work.

Buy it. Now.