ABSTRACT
Those interested in arms control often think of themselves as partisans of an exotic speciality that is essentially unintelligible to the public. Their educational efforts, at least in the United States, tend therefore to emphasise the full education of a small arms control elite and the occasional propagandisation of the public on the horrors of war or the evils of the military establishment. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was an interim territorial arrangement, coupled with arms control. The arms controllers of the 1950s thought of a Soviet-American nuclear war as the most serious threat. The failure of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) really was a surprise to the American public. The public needs a chance to learn more about the domestic politics of arms control and the way in which arms control is frustrated in its current political mode. Similar education is also needed in the developing nations, particularly in those which are rapidly acquiring weapons.
