Download or read book Costs of Disarmament--disarming the Costs written by Susan Willett and published by United Nations Publications UNIDIR. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the costs and benefits of nuclear arms control treaties between the US and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation. The report finds that, although the implementation and verification of nuclear arms control regimes can be expensive, these costs pale into insignificance compared to the costs and risks of nuclear rearmament and the consequences of a nuclear arms race.