SIPRI Yearbook 1989

`The SIPRI Yearbook is without doubt the world's most exhaustive annual survey of military matters. As a reference book for arms development, weapons, transfers, regulations and legislation, it is an unparalleled source.'The Middle East

• Foreword; Glossary and conventions; I: Weapons and Technology: Nuclear weapons; Nuclear explosions; Appendix 2A Nuclear explosions, 1945-1988; Appendix 2B Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the conduct of a joint verification experiment; Military use of outer space: Appendix 3A Military satellites launched in 1988; Appendix 3B operational military satellites in orbit on 31 December 1988; Chemical and biological warfare: developments in 1988; Appendix 4A Final declaration of the Paris Conference; II: Military expenditure, the arms trade and armed conflicts : World military expenditure; Appendix 5A Tables of world military expenditure, 1979-1988; The trade in conventional weapons; Appendix 6A Aggregate tables of the value of the trade in major weapons with the Third World, 1979-1988; Appendix 6B Register of the trade in major conventional weapons with industrialized and Third World countries, 1988; Appendix 6C Register of licensed production of major conventional weapons in industrialized and Third World countries, 1988; Appendix 6D Sources and methods; Ballistic missile proliferation in the Third World; Arms trade regulations; Armed conflicts in 1988; III: Developments in arms control: US-Societ nuclear arms control; Conventional arms control in Europe; Appendix 11A Implementation of the Stockholm Document and calendar of planned notifiable miltary activities in 1989 and forecast for 1990; Appendix 11B Extacts from the Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting 1986 of representatives of the participating states of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe; Multilateral arms control efforts; IV: Special features: Conflict resolution in 1988: the role of the United Nations; The SIPRI 1988 Olof Palme Memorial Lecture - 'Arms control and arms reduction: the agenda ahead'; Annexes; Annexe A: Major multilateral arms control agreements; Annexe B Chronology; Errata SIPRI Yearbook 1988; Index