Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law. (Book Reviews)

Political Science Quarterly, December, 2002 by Ido Oren

Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law by Thomas Graham, Jr. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002. 362 pp. $35.00.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1961, Thomas Graham, Jr. changed five jobs in nine years before joining the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Although he initially planned to stay for three years, he quickly developed a passion for arms control and remained at ACDA for twenty-seven years. Graham's distinguished career included a long tenure as ACDA's general counsel and a subsequent stint as President Bill Clinton's special representative for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. He had been intimately involved in all the major arms control negotiations of the era, including...