SUMARIO: Introduction - World military expenditure - World arms production - World arms trade - The military use of outer space - Nuclear power and nuclear proliferation: export policies and proliferation resistance - The expansion of naval forces - Command and control of the sea-based nuclear deterrent: the possibility of a counterforce role - Strategic anti-submarine warfare and its implications for a counterforce first strike - The prohibition of inhumane and indiscriminate weapons - Stockpiles of chemical weapons and their destruction - The UN special session on disarmament: an analytical review - Disarmament at the 1978 regular ONU general assembly session - The implementation of multilateral arms control agreements - The humanitarian rules of war - Bilateral arms control agreements - Nuclear explosions - Confidence-building in Europe - NGOs and disarmament - Chronology of major events concerning disarmament issues.