Arms Control Agreements: A Handbook
In: Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Security Studies v.5
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Pre-World War II efforts towards multilateral control of arms -- I. The humanitarian rules of war -- II. The peace treaties -- III. The naval treaties -- The 1922 Washington Treaty -- The 1930 London Treaty -- The 1936 London Treaty -- IV. Attempts to regulate arms trade and production -- The 1890 Brussels Act -- The 1906 Act of Algeciras -- The 1919 St Germain Convention -- The League of Nations Armaments Year-book -- The 1925 Geneva Convention on the arms trade -- The 1929 proposal for supervision of arms production -- V. Limitation of armaments in Central America -- VI. The First World Disarmament Conference -- Renunciation of war -- Armed forces, armaments and defence expenditures -- Chemical, incendiary and bacteriological warfare -- Arms trade and manufacture -- Verification and sanctions -- Moral disarmament -- Chapter 2. Early United Nations arms control activities -- I. The UN Charter -- II. Nuclear disarmament -- The Baruch Plan -- The Soviet response -- US-Soviet differences -- 'Atoms for Peace' -- III. Limitation of armed forces and armaments -- Soviet and Western approaches -- Soviet and Western disarmament programmes in 1954-55 -- The 1955 Geneva Summit -- IV. Arms control conferences in 1958 -- V. General and complete disarmament -- The principle of balance -- Duration and stages -- Reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments -- Nuclear disarmament -- Verification -- Peace-keeping -- Chapter 3. A review of the obligations in the arms control agreements -- I. Restrictions on nuclear weapon testing -- Partial Test Ban Treaty -- Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty -- Comprehensive test ban -- II. Strategic arms limitation -- ABM Treaty.
