Open Skies: Eisenhower's Proposal of July 21, 1955

ISBN-10: 029276023X
ISBN-13: 9780292760233
Series: Open Skies
Pages: 224
Language: English
Published: 1982
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Authors: Walt Whitman Rostow, W. W. Rostow

Description

In 1955 the United States and the Soviet Union were matching steps in a race to develop missiles tipped with thermonuclear weapons. American officials were frustrated and alarmed by their inability to learn the scale and progress of the Soviet program, which directly threatened the security of the United States, and they were convinced that serious arms control measures required reliable means for mutual inspection. The result: President Dwight D. Eisenhower's dramatic Open Skies proposal, advanced--and rejected--at the Geneva summit of 1955.