SIPRI Yearbook 1988 World Armaments and Disarmament [Hardcover]

This annual report continues and updates SIPRI's charting of the latest developments in nuclear weapons, nuclear explosions, world military expenditure, the international arms trade, chemical and biological weapons, conventional weapon technology, the military use of outer space, and current armed conflicts of the world. TheYearbookalso describes efforts to control the arms race, and analyzes the status of negotiations and agreements. A special section reviews the INF treaty signed in December 1987 by the United States and the Soviet Union, the ABM Treaty, the Iran-Iraq war, and disarmament and development.

Praise for previous editions: Consistent with SIPRI's high standards, the book is an authoritative source of data....Invaluable to negotiators, U.N. staff, and policy makers involved in public debates, as well as the general reader. --Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

SIPRI's studies are nearly invaluable for all those interested in problems of disarmament, as much because of their extensive documentation as for the competence of their authors. --Le Monde

What sets this volume apart from similar fact-finding yearbooks is the readable style in which the material is presented. This is an extremely useful work for all those concerned with armaments and the arms race. --American Reference Book Annual