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Open Skies

A Cooperative Approach to Military Transparency and Confidence Building

  • Author: UNIDIR
  • Publication date: October 2004
  • Page count: 344
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: GV.04.0.18

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Open Skies is the longest held idea in the history of modern arms control. Originally proposed in the mid 1950s, a multilateral Open Skies Treaty was signed in 1992. Based on the principles of cooperation and openness, the Treaty enables states parties to overfly and observe the territory of one another. Open Skies images have already proved themselves in the verification of several arms control agreements as well as other monitoring missions. This book is the first publication to give a detailed and extensive account of the concept of the Open Skies, its concretization and its prospects.