Carter Administration’s Policy On Chemical Weapons

The Carter Administration’s chemical weapons policy played an important role in the United States’ chemical weapons policy during the cold war.It was not only the product of the background of international arms control and disarmament at that time,but also influenced by the chemical weapons policy of Nixon and Ford administration.Therefore,under Carter’s "human rights diplomacy" policy characteristics,how to promote the decision-making and implementation of Carter’s chemical weapons policy is particularly attracting people’s attention.Taking the chemical weapons policy of Carter administration as the theme,this paper attempts to sort out and analyze the chemical weapons policy of Carter administration by using the research methods of history,international politics and other disciplines.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,there are four chapters.The first chapter introduces the start and development of American chemical weapons research,and discusses the chemical weapons policy of Nixon and Ford administration.During his term of office,Nixon promoted the signing of the biological weapons convention and basically established the basic framework of the US chemical weapons policy until the Reagan administration came to power.Ford administration basically continued Nixon’s chemical weapons policy.In 1975,Carter administration pushed the US Senate to approve the Geneva Protocol.In the late Nixon Administration and the Ford administration,the United States and the Soviet Union held contact negotiations on a joint us Soviet chemical weapons initiative,which lasted until the Carter administration.The second chapter focuses on the Carter Administration’s early(1977-1980)chemical weapons policy.With the new development of chemical weapons technology,the new dimension of Carter’s chemical weapons policy needs to be considered.The main body of the policy is divided into three parts.The first part focuses on the formulation and implementation of the chemical weapons policy in the early period of Carter administration,including many factors that need to be considered to promote the policy formulation,the effect of the policy implementation and improvement measures.The second part is about 12 rounds of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union on the chemical weapons joint initiative.Although it is not comprehensive,it is a very important aspect of Carter Administration’s chemical weapons policy.The third part is the internal discussion about the dual chemical weapons policy.The three parts are not completely separated,so the strategy of integration is adopted.The third chapter discusses the diplomatic confrontation between the yellow rain event and the Soviet Union Sverdlovsk event and the United States and Soviet Union.The yellow rain incident was accused by the Carter government of chemical and toxin weapons attacks by the Soviet Union and its Vietnamese allies in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia.The Soviet Union "Sverdlovsk incident" was considered by Carter government as a biological anthrax leakage.These two events have had a profound impact on the U.S.-Soviet relations,the negotiation of the chemical weapons convention,and the international arms control and disarmament policy.It has led Carter to shake the arms control policy,which is mainly based on the "easing policy",and the chemical weapons policy presents a new turn.The conclusion briefly reviews the main policies and significance of the Carter government’s chemical weapons policy,and analyzes its potential impact on the chemical weapons policy of the U.S.government after Carter government.By using the systematic analysis method of international politics,the paper analyzes the policy characteristics of Carter government in the process of comprehensively balancing the opinions of all parties and promoting decision-making,and in the negotiation of bargaining with the Soviet Union.