This US air force manual goes on to list six arms control agreements.

This was to be the first in a series of arms control agreements between the superpowers.

Without the replacement, there would be a serious gap in the nation's ability to monitor current arms control agreements.

Fortunately, such an arms control agreement could be neatly verified.

Some of the more important international arms control agreements follow:

And the need for wider regional arms control agreements is increasingly evident.

Existing arms control agreements, like the 1972 treaty, have a good record of managing these threats.

Now can you imagine if we had no arms control agreements?

"They have an extensive record of violating past arms control agreements," he said.

As you know, the Soviets have an extensive record of violating past arms control agreements.