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The SIPRI Yearbook 1989 continues SIPRI's review of the latest developments in nuclear weapons, nuclear explosions, world military expenditure, the international arms trade, chemical and biological weapons, the military use of outer space, ongoing armed conflicts and European arms control, and present the unique annual calendar of military activities required by the Stockholm Document. Efforts to control the arms race - in nuclear, chemical, biological, conventional and space weapons - are described, and the status of negotiations and agreements is analysed.
List of contents
Foreword; Glossary and conventions; I: Weapons and Technology: Nuclear weapons; Nuclear explosions; Appendix 2A Nuclear explosions, 1945-1988; Appendix 2B Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the conduct of a joint verification experiment; Military use of outer space: Appendix 3A Military satellites launched in 1988; Appendix 3B operational military satellites in orbit on 31 December 1988; Chemical and biological warfare: developments in 1988; Appendix 4A Final declaration of the Paris Conference; II: Military expenditure, the arms trade and armed conflicts : World military expenditure; Appendix 5A Tables of world military expenditure, 1979-1988; The trade in conventional weapons; Appendix 6A Aggregate tables of the value of the trade in major weapons with the Third World, 1979-1988; Appendix 6B Register of the trade in major conventional weapons with industrialized and Third World countries, 1988; Appendix 6C Register of licensed production of major conventional weapons in industrialized and Third World countries, 1988; Appendix 6D Sources and methods; Ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World; Arms trade regulations; Armed conflicts in 1988; III: Developments in arms control: US-Societ nuclear arms control; Conventional arms control in Europe; Appendix 11A Implementation of the Stockholm Document and calendar of planned notifiable miltary activities in 1989 and forecast for 1990; Appendix 11B Extacts from the Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting 1986 of representatives of the participating states of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe; Multilateral arms control efforts; IV: Special features: Conflict resolution in 1988: the role of the United Nations; The SIPRI 1988 Olof Palme Memorial Lecture - 'Arms control and arms reduction: the agenda ahead'; Annexes; Annexe A: Major multilateral arms control agreements; Annexe B Chronology; Errata SIPRI Yearbook 1988; Index
