SUMARIO: Introduction - Long-range theatre nuclear forces in Europe - The CSCE and a European disarmament conference - The neutron bomb - Nordic initiatives for a nuclear weapon-free zone in Europe - World military expenditure and arms production - The trade in major conventional weapons - Strategic nuclear weapons - Laser enrichment of plutonium - Military use of outer space - The changing status of chemical and biological warfare: recent technical, military and political developments - The environmental aftermath of warfare in Vietnam - Militarization and arms control in Latin America - Nuclear explosions - Arms control in outer space - The prohibition of inhumane weapons: new small arms ammunition - Disarmament at the 1981 UN general assembly - Multilateral and bilateral arms control agreements - Chronology of major events related to arms control issues.