Arms control -- United States

Scope and Contents Note The R. Joseph DeSutter Collection of U.S. National Security Documents contains materials related to U.S. national security and arms control from the 1980s to the 1990s. They were collected as part of DeSutter's work in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations as a national security advisor. DeSutter was a White House expert on the Strategic Defense Initiative and its relation to the ABM Treaty; ongoing arms control negotiations; verification and compliance; national space policy; and...

Scope and Contents The J. Graham Parsons Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence files, memoranda, and photographs accumulated by Ambassador Parsons during his many years as a U.S. diplomat. Of note are files from his tenure as ambassador to Laos (1956-58); to Sweden (1961-67); and as deputy U.S. representative at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks held in Vienna and Helsinki (1970-72).The collection is enriched by many original signed letters from notable names in U.S....

Scope and Contents Although Ambassador Paul C. Warnke's official papers are at the Johnson Presidential Library, this collection documents the controversy that preceded his confirmation as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as a principal U.S. negotiator of the SALT II treaty. Most importantly the collection portrays his continuing role in the non-government arms control movement. There is much on Democratic presidential campaigns, the Vietnam War, and the legal culture of Washington, D.C....

Scope and Contents The Paul C. Warnke Papers: Part 2 consist of material regarding the career of Paul C. Warnke. Included in the collection are document lists, files concerning Warnke's government service, documents related to the organizations to which Warnke belonged, texts of some of Warnke's oral presentations, publications, and a limited amount of correspondence to and from Warnke. The Paul C. Warnke Papers: Part 2 supplement the more extensive Paul C. Warnke Papers [Part 1] also preserved in the...