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Arms and Disarmament: SIPRI Findings
This book, celebrating Sipri's 20th anniversary, reflects the broad scope of the Institute's studies in the dynamics of armaments, disarmament, and arms control. Since World War II, technological arms competition has increasingly militarized international political relations. The reversal of this by arms control and disarmament agreements is largely dependent on the provision of well-researched information about what is happening in the world military sector from an objective, non-military, and neutral source. For twenty years Sipri has provided such a source.
This book is a collection of short articles which summarize the state of play on a wide range of topics. These include world military expenditure, military research and development, the arms trade, nuclear weapon stockpiles, nuclear weapon testing, the neutron bomb, the military use of outer space, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear deterrence and nuclear disengagement, the comprehensive test ban, the United Nations and disarmament, and public opinion on peace and war. These articles provide facts and figures, analyses of past trends and future perspectives, and Sipri's conclusions and recommendations. Most of the articles are shortened versions of longer contributions to Sipri publications. This encyclopaedic book provides a comprehensive guide to the military and arms control issues of the day.
Table of contents
Introduction: On the Nature of SIPRI's Peace Research Studies
F. Blackaby
Part I. The Quantitative and Qualitative Dimensions of the Arms Race
1. World Military Expenditure
R. Tullberg
2. Military Research and Development
M. Acland-Hood
3. Nuclear Testing
R. Ferm
4. Trade in Major Conventional Weapons: The Changing Pattern
M. Brzoska & T. Ohlson
5. Military-Related Debt in Non-Oil Developing Countries, 1972–1982
R. Tullberg
6. Arms Production in the Third World
M. Brzoska & T. Ohlson
7. The World Military System: Inadequacy of Data
F. Blackaby & T. Ohlson
8. Soviet Military Expenditure and Defence Burden
C. G. Jacobsen
Part II. Nuclear Armaments
9. World Nuclear Weapon Stockpiles
R. W. Fieldhouse
10. Nuclear Weapons 1986
M. Arkin, A. S. Burrows, T. C. Cochran, R. S. Norris, J. I. Sands, A. M. Din & R. W. Fieldhouse
11. US-Soviet Strategic Force Comparisons in 1982
S. Lunn & J. Seabright
12. Chinese Nuclear Potential
R. W. Fieldhouse
13. Third-Generation Nuclear Weapons
K. Tsipis
14. The Neutron Bomb
H. Scoville, Jr.
15. Nuclear Weapon Command, Control and Communications
W. M. Arkin & R. W. Fieldhouse
Part III. Military Use of Outer Space
16. The Strategic Defence Initiative and Its Implications
F. Blackaby
17. Expansion of the Arms Race into Outer Space
B. Jasani
18. Strategic Computing: New Risks and Vulnerabilities
A. Din
Part IV. The Contemporary Battlefield
19. Warfare in a Fragile World: Conventional, Nuclear and Environmental Weapons
A. H. Westing, M. Lumsden, J. Rotblat, A. S. Ginsburg, G. S. Golitsyn, A. A. Vasiliev, P. Berg & G. Herolf
20. Chemical and Biological Warfare
J. P. Perry Robinson
Part V. Conceptual and Strategic Issues
21. No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
F. Blackaby, J. Goldblat & S. Lodgaard
22. The Concept of Common Security
F. Blackaby, R. Väyrynen, E. Bahr, M. Kaldor, E. Rothschild, J. E. Wiesner, S. Lodgaard, M. Sæter & J. J. Holst
23. Nuclear Disengagement in Europe
S. Lodgaard
24. Nuclear Weapon-Free Central Europe
J. Goldblat
25. Trust and Confidence in East-West Relations
K. Birnbaum
26. Agenda for European Security
F. Blackaby
Part VI. Regional Conflicts
27. Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Central America
J. Goldblat & V. Millán
28. Afghanistan: a Protracted Conflict
J.-Ch. Victor
29. Militarization and Conflict in Africa
R. Luckham
30. South Africa: Arms Embargo Disimplemented
S. Landgren
Part VII. Arms Control and Disarmament
31. Arms Control Agreements and Humanitarian Laws of War
J. Goldblat
32. A Comprehensive Test Ban
F. Blackaby
33. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
S. Lodgaard & F. Blackaby
34. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Imperative
J. Goldblat
Appendix. Nuclear plants under construction or operating in the developing countries outside Europe
35. Geneva Negotiations on Chemical Weapons
R. Trapp
36. The Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Ban on Chemical Weapons
J. Goldblat
37. The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone
G. E. Frey
38. A Chemical Weapon-Free Zone in Europe
J. Goldblat
39. Confidence-Building and Security in Europe
S. Lodgaard
40. Arms Control Verification
A. S. Krass
41. Arms Control and Disarmament
S. Lodgaard
Appendix. Arms control agreements
Appendix. Status of the implementation of the major multilateral arms control agreements, as of 1 January 1986
Appendix. UN member states and year of membership
42. The United Nations and Disarmament
J. Goldblat
43. Restraining the Qualitative Arms Race
M. Acland-Hood
44. Military Technology, the Arms Race and Arms Control
M. Thee
45. Public Opinion on Peace and War
E. den Oudsten & F. Blackaby
46. Chronology of Major Events Related to Arms Control Issues, 1981–85
J. Goldblat & R. Ferm
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