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The nuclear deal is a reaffirmation that complex issues should be resolved, wherever possible, through dialogue rather than confrontation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in June 2002 ended the era when the effort to control nuclear weapons was a central preoccupation of US foreign policy. Arms control did little to control weapons during the Cold War, but it was a political imperative which assuaged the anxiety of the nuclear competition. At the end of the Cold War, arms-control treaties initially provided an essential mechanism for managing the decline of Soviet power. Then the paraphernalia of arms control quickly came to be seen as cumbersome, slow and ill-adapted to new security threats. The second Bush administration delivered the coup de grace. Strategic arms control has had its day, but it would be a mistake to throw the baby out with the bathwater. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]