The SIPRI Yearbook 1979 continues SIPRI's analyses of the world's arms races, based on annual series of data on world military expenditures, arms production and arms trade. Efforts to control the arms races are described, including such topics as the destruction of chemical weapon stockpiles, the nuclear test ban, and the prohibition of inhumane weapons. The United Nations special session on disarmament is reviewed and assessed. A detailed account is given of the status of the implementation of the major arms control agreements and humanitarian conventions, with table of signatories and ratifications.
This Yearbook deals with such military technological topics as laser and particle-beam weapons, military satellites, nuclear weapon proliferation, the naval arms race, and the sea-based nuclear deterrent.
Contents
Introduction
Frank Barnaby
1. World military expenditure
Frank Blackaby assisted by Elisabeth Sköns
Appendix 1A. World military expenditure, 1978
Appendix 1B. Sources and methods for the world military expenditure data
2. World arms production
Signe Landgren-Bäckström, assisted by Evamaria Loose-Weintraub and Carol Stoltenberg-Hansen
Appendix 2A. Registers of indigenous and licensed production of major weapons in industrialized countries, 1978
Appendix 2B. Registers of indigenous and licensed production of major weapons in Third World countries, 1978
3. World arms trade
Signe Landgren-Bäckström, assisted by Evamaria Loose-Weintraub and Carol Stoltenberg-Hansen
Appendix 3A. Register of the arms trade with industrialized countries, 1978
Appendix 3B. Register of the arms trade with Third World countries, 1978
Appendix 3C. Sources and methods for the world arms production and trade data
4. The military use of outer space
Bhupendra Jasani
5. Nuclear power and nuclear proliferation: export policies and proliferation resistance
Sverre Lodgaard
6. The expansion of naval forces
Andrzej Karkoszka
7. Command and control of the sea-based nuclear deterrent: the possibility of a counterforce role
Owen Wilkes
Appendix 7A. US and Soviet strategic nuclear forces, 1970–79
Randall Forsberg
8. Strategic anti-submarine warfare and its implications for a counterforce first strike
Owen Wilkes
9. The prohibition of inhumane and indiscriminate weapons
Malvern Lumsden
Appendix 9A. The US Rules of Engagement in Viet Nam as they relate to certain specific weapons
Appendix 9B. Safety zones required to reduce the indiscriminate effects of conventional weapons
10. Stockpiles of chemical weapons and their destruction
Johan Lundin
11. The UN Special Session on Disarmament: an analytical review
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
Appendix 11A. Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly
Appendix 11B. SIPRI statement to the Special Session of the UN General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament, delivered 13 June 1978 (excerpt)
12. Disarmament at the 1978 regular UN General Assembly session
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
Appendix 12A. UN member states and year of membership
Appendix 12B. UN resolutions on disarmament matters
13. The implementation of multilateral arms control agreements
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
14. The humanitarian rules of war
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
15. Bilateral arms control agreements
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
16. Nuclear explosions
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
Appendix 16A. Nuclear explosions, 1976–78 (known and presumed)
Appendix 16B. Nuclear explosions, 1945–78 (known and presumed)
17. Confidence-building in Europe
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm
Appendix 17A. Notifications of military manoeuvres in 1978, in compliance with the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
18. NGOs and disarmament
Homer Jack
19. Chronology of major events concerning disarmament issues
Jozef Goldblat assisted by Ragnhild Ferm