Post-cold War Security in and for Europe
Crisis in Russia: Facts and Figures, People and Data
Sources and Methods for SIPRI Research
Since it was established as an independent international research institute in 1966, SIPRI has forged a reputation for providing unbiased facts and figures—all based on open sources. The projects on world military expenditure and arms transfers are two of the longest running programmes of the Institute. The arms production project was started in 1989.
The Chemical Weapons Convention
The entry into force of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention is unique in the history of arms control. This disarmament agreement both bans an entire class of weapons and simultaneously addresses chemical weapon proliferation concerns. This SIPRI Fact Sheet summarizes the process that led to conclusion of the convention.
Iraq: The UNSCOM Experience
Missile Defence and the ABM Treaty: A Status Report
The subject of missile defence has again emerged as the focus of an international controversy. The current debate is generated by the USA's efforts to modify a central pillar of the nuclear arms control framework inherited from the cold war—the 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty)—in order to permit it to develop and deploy a limited or thin national missile defence (NMD) system.
Biotechnology and the Future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Maintaining the Effectiveness of the Chemical Weapons Convention
On 28 April 2003 a Special Conference of the States Parties to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will be convened to review the implementation of the 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention, CWC) and to take into account new, relevant, scientific and technological developments.