Author: United Nations
Publisher: United Nations
Keywords: disarmament, study, series, context, current, development, relationship, international
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 9211422531
ISBN-13: 9789211422535

This report provides a reappraisal of the disarmament-development relationship and the role of the Organization. It makes numerous recommendations and includes specific areas for further research by specialized United Nations bodies and non-governmental organizations in order to enhance understanding of this topic.

Author: United Nations Dept.for Disarmament Affairs
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: yearbook, disarmament, nations, united
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2002-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9211422469
ISBN-13: 9789211422467

This annual publication reviews the main developments and negotiations during the year in all areas of disarmament. It includes the special sessions of the General Assembly, the actions taken and the resulting resolutions. It also presents the actions taken as a result of conventions, meetings of the Disarmament Commission and any Ad Hoc Committee meetings held during the year.

Author: Haralambos Athanasopulos
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: law, international, disarmament, nuclear
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2000-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0786405872
ISBN-13: 9780786405879

When German physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman first split the uranium atom in 1938, they might have little imagined the potential power their experiments had unleashed. Since the United States successfully detonated the first atomic weapons in 1945, the entire world has lived in fear of annihilation. Technological advances in weaponry and, importantly, their delivery systems have only heightened the sense of dread. Yet, since the end of World War II, world governments have been unable to agree on a strategy for nuclear disarmament. This led first to the Cold War and ultimately to the pr

Authors:Richard A. Falk, Samuel S. Kim, Saul H. Mendlovitz
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: volume, development, economic, disarmament
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1966-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0878557725
ISBN-13: 9780878557721

Author: Thomas Graham
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: international, law, first, control, decades, sketches, three, disarmament
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2002-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0295982128
ISBN-13: 9780295982120

Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones of international security as SALT, START, and the ABM, INF, and CFE treaties as well as conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons. Graham’s memoir offers a history of the key negotiations which have substantially reduced the threat of nuclear war. His is a personal accou

Author: Susan Willett
Publisher: Imprint unknow
Keywords: asian, dynamic, south, future, disarmament, mortgaging, cost
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9290451610
ISBN-13: 9789290451617

Cost of Disarmament-mortgaging the Future,the South Asian Arms Dynamic Author: Susan WillettPublisher: Imprint unknownThis item is no longer availableMedia: HardcoverShipping Weight (lbs): 1.7ISBN: 9290451610EAN: 9789290451617ASIN: 9290451610Publication Date: March 30, 2004

Authors:Albert Legault, Michel Fortmann,
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: disarmament, canada, hope, diplomacy
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 1992-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0773509550
ISBN-13: 9780773509559

Setting their study in a broad international context, the authors present their account of the negotiations under the following thematic headings: the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations; the Commission for Conventional Armaments; the Disarmament Commission; talks on the Arctic and the de-nuclearization of Central Europe during the late 1950s and the early 1960s; the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament; the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament; the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; the negotiations on chemical and biological weapons, banning nuclear tests, and