United Nations and Disarmament 1945-1970 / UNODA.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Series:

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2412-1193.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disarmament.

Local Subjects:

Disarmament.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 1970.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The United Nations and Disarmament 1945-1970 compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption.

Contents:

Introduction: Evolution of machinery and approaches

The atomic energy commission

The commission for conventional armaments

Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments, 1951-1958

General and complete disarmament, 1959-1970

Economic and social consequences of disarmament

Collateral measures of disarmament

Outer space and disarmament

The problem of the prevention of an arms race on the sea-bed

Early initiatives, 1954-1958

The period of the conference on the discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon tests, 1958-1962

The Nuclear Test Ban treaty of 1963

Efforts to achieve a comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, 1964-1970

Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The conference of Non-Nuclear-Weapon states

Nuclear-Free zones

Efforts to achieve a comprehensive ban on chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons

Postscript

List of General Assembly resolutions on disarmament and related matters, 1946-1969

USSR draft treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict international control

United States of America: Outline of basic provisions of a treaty on general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world

The antarctic treaty

USSR and United States of America: Memorandum of understanding (with annex) regarding establishment of a direct communications link

Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water

Treaty on principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies

Treaty for the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

USSR and United States of America: Draft treaty on the prohibition of emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the sea-bed and the Ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof

United Kingdom: Draft convention for the prohibition of biological methods of warfare and accompanying draft security council resolution

Bulgaria, the Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR: Draft convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and on the destruction of such weapons

Sweden: Working paper suggesting possible provisions of a treaty banning underground nuclear weapon tests.

ISBN:

9789210579780

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