In addition to regular features and statistics, there are chapters on third-generation nuclear weapons and 'Star Wars' weaponry, a review of the Soviet literature on the 'nuclear winter', on the militarization of Africa over the past decade, on military-related debt problems of the developing countries without oil reserves and on the conflict in Afghanistan. Conscientious objection to military service and the relevance of the Sinai peace experience to the observance of the military activity in central Europe as a confidence-building measure are both subjects of special studies.

Contents
Introduction
Frank Blackaby
Appendix A. Public opinion
Eymert Den Oudsten

Part I. The nuclear arms race
1. Nuclear weapons
William M. Arkin, Andrew S. Burrows, Richard W. Fieldhouse, Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris and Jeffrey I. Sands
2. Nuclear explosions
Ragnhild Ferm
Appendix 2A. Nuclear explosions, 1983 (revised data for the USA) and 1984 (preliminary data)
Appendix 2B. Nuclear explosions, 1945–84 (known and presumed)
3. Third-generation nuclear weapons
Kosta Tsipis
Appendix 3A. The X-ray laser
4. Global consequences of a nuclear war: a review of recent Soviet studies
A. S. Ginsburg, G. S. Golitsyn and A. A. Vasiliev
Appendix 4A. Nuclear winter: a bibliography
Arthur H. Westing

Part II. Space weapons and CBW
5. The military use of outer space
Bhupendra Jasani and G. E. Perry
Appendix 5A. Space weapons
Appendix 5B. Tables of satellites launched in 1984
6. Chemical and biological warfare: developments in 1984
J. P. Perry Robinson
Appendix 6A. An analysis of the reports of Iraqi chemical warfare against Iran, 1980–84

Part III. World armaments
7. World military expenditure and arms production
Michael Brzoska, Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus, Evamaria Loose-Weintraub, Elisabeth Sköns, Rita Tullberg and Gordon Adams
Appendix 7A. Tables of world military expenditure, 1975–84
8. Military research and development expenditure
Mary Acland-Hood
9. Militarization in Africa
Robin Luckham
Appendix 9A. Inventory of military government, armed conflict and external military intervention in post-colonial Africa
10. Arms production in the Third World
Herbert Wulf
11. The trade in major conventional weapons
Michael Brzoska and Thomas Ohlson
Appendix 11A. Aggregate tables of the value of the trade in major weapons with the Third World, 1965–84
Appendix 11B. Register of the trade in major conventional weapons with industrialized and Third World countries, 1984
Appendix 11C. Register of licensed production of major conventional weapons in industrialized and Third World countries, 1984
Appendix 11D. Criteria, values and conventions
12. Military-related debt in non-oil developing countries, 1972–82
Rita Tullberg
Appendix 12A. Definitions and methods

Part IV. Developments in arms control
13. Multilateral arms control efforts
Jozef Goldblat
Appendix 13A. UN General Assembly resolutions and decisions on disarmament, 1984
14. Major multilateral arms control agreements
Jozef Goldblat and Ragnhild Ferm
15. The first year of the Stockholm Conference
Karl E. Birnbaum
Appendix 15A. Notification of military manoeuvres in 1984, in compliance with the Final Act of the CSCE
16. The Sinai peacekeeping experience: a verification paradigm for Europe
David Barton
Appendix 16A. Second Sinai Disengagement Agreement, Egypt and Israel, September 1, 1975
Appendix 16B. Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel

Part V. A conflict study: Afghanistan
17. The conflict in Afghanistan
Jean-Christophe Victor
Appendix 17A. Treaty of Friendship, Goodneighbourliness and Cooperation between the U.S.S.R. and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, 5 December 1978
Appendix 17B. UN General Assembly resolution 39/13: The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security, 21 November 1984

Part VI. Conscientious objection
18. Conscientious objection to military service
Peter Whittle
Appendix 18A. The recognition of conscientious objection
Appendix 18B. Document of international bodies ruling on conscientious objection

Chronology of major events related to arms control issues
Jozef Goldblat and Ragnhild Ferm

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN 0-85066-297-4 - hardback, 666 pp.
1985