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AGREEMENTS FOR ARMS CONTROL
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Agreements for Arms Control: A critical survey
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Sipri is an independent institute for research into problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament. It was established in 1966 to commemorate Swedens 150 years of unbroken peace.
The Institute is financed by the Swedish Parliament. The Staff, the Governing Board and the Scientific Council are international.
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Dr Rolf Bjrnerstedt, Chairman (Sweden)
Dr Egon Bahr (FR Germany)
Mr Tim Greve (Norway)
Dr Max Jakobson (Finland)
Professor Karlheinz Lohs (German Democratic Republic)
Professor Leo Mates (Yugoslavia)
The Director
Director
Mr Frank Blackaby (United Kingdom)
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Agreements for Arms Control:
A critical survey
Jozef Goldblat
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Goldblat, Jozef
Agreements for arms control.
1. Arms control
I. Title II. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Preface
The United Nations declaration proclaiming the 1980s as the Second Disarmament Decade stressed the need to mobilize world public opinion on behalf of peace and disarmament. SIPRI contributes to such a mobilization by spreading objective information about the arms race and about the efforts made to stop it. This book serves the latter purpose. It is a comprehensive handbook on arms control, containing a critical analysis and assessment of the arms control agreements and of current negotiations, free of the usual bias of official government reports.
The book is published on the occasion of the 1982 UN General Assembly Special Session devoted to disarmament but it has not been prepared only for diplomats or other officials participating in this session. The intention is to facilitate the work of all those dealing with arms control and disarmament problems, including scholars, politicians and other concerned citizens.
Acknowledgements: Acknowledgement is given to Ragnhild Ferm for compiling the documentary and statistical material in the book, and to Connie Wall for editing the manuscript.
April 1982
Jozef Goldblat
Measures for the limitation of armaments can take various forms. They can be taken by states on a voluntary basis, without reciprocity. They can be part of agreed armistice arrangements following armed conflicts. They can also be imposed upon defeated countries, as in the case of Germany after both World Wars. This book, however, is concerned only with agreements freely arrived at in time of peace among sovereign states, through a process of formal intergovernmental negotiation, and providing for mutual rights and obligations.
A multitude of proposals for regulation of armaments, including proposals for the complete elimination of armed forces and weapons, have been made in various forums, but so far only so-called arms control measures have been agreed upon, imposing certain restrictions on the armament policies of states. Originally, the term arms control, coined in the USA, was meant to denote internationally agreed rules limiting the arms competition rather than reversing it; it had a connotation distinct from the reduction of armaments or disarmament. Subsequently, however, diverse measures intended to freeze, limit or abolish specific categories of weapons; to prevent certain military activities; to regulate the deployment of forces; to proscribe transfers of militarily important items; to reduce the risk of an accidental war; to constrain or prohibit the use of certain arms in war; or to build up confidence among states through greater openness in the military field, and thereby produce an international climate conducive to disarmament, have come to be included under the rubric of arms control. It is in this broad sense that the term arms control will be used here, often interchangeably with arms limitation or disarmament.
This publication deals primarily with the bilateral and multilateral arms control agreements reached since World War II. In the latter category of agreements, several are of a regional nature in the sense that they are valid only for a given geographical zone or continent. The forms of the agreements discussed in this book vary from treaties, conventions or protocols, to memoranda, declarations or common understandings, to statutes, charters and special binding decisions of international bodies or final acts of international conferences, to joint or simultaneous statements by governments, to exchanges of letters among the states concerned.
