The Amaldi Conferences. Their Past and Their Potential Future
Abstract
In this paper the history of the founding and of the development of the Amaldi Conferences is described with special reference to the following aspects and questions: 1. The Origin 2. The Vision of a European CISAC (Committee on International Security and Arms Control) 3. Changes in the Political Landscape and their Consequences 4. Discussions on Widening the Scope of the Amaldi Conferences 5. The "Amaldi Guidelines" 6. Are the Amaldi Conferences still serving their initial purpose? 7. Are there new chances for a European CISAC after the progress in European Unification?
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.1572,
title = {The Amaldi Conferences. Their Past and Their Potential Future},
author = {Klaus Gottstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1572},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
41 pages and 12 Appendices A previous version of this paper was stored in arXiv in 2011 under the title "The Past and the Potential Future of the Amaldi Conferences" with otherwise identical text but without Journal reference; No. 431, Preprint Series of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2012