ABSTRACT
From the Amphictyonic League of ancient Greece to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, nations have used arms control agreements to relieve tension and reduce the risk of inadvertent war. The Modern US Arms Control theory developed between 1959 and 1962 produced an impressive array of agreements between 1963 and 1979. However, in the cold light of the 1980s, the weakness of the traditional approach has become painfully evident, and it is seen as imperative to move beyond the outmoded and sterile approach of traditional arms control to some new conception capable of producing more durable and more meaningful results. The Baruch Plan was an abuse of arms control, which is too modest an instrument to use for remaking the world. The Baruch Plan of 1946, the United States' proposal for nuclear disarmament, never had any serious chance of success.
