The Role and Control of Weapons in the 1990's

by Frank Barnaby

1. The Evolution of Security
2. New Military Technologies
   1. New military technologies
      1. Reconnaissance
      2. Weapon guidance
      3. New conventional warheads
      4. Computerized C3I systems
   2. Vulnerability of main battle tanks
      1. Anti-tank Missile developments
   3. Non-offencive defence
   4. Criteria for judging change in security policy
3. Arms Production and Trade
   1. Arms producers
      1. Regional arms producers
   2. Who buys and sells weapons?
      1. Arms exporters
      2. Arms importers
   3. Why do countries buy and sell weapons?
4. The Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles
5. The Nuclear Dimension
   1. Nuclear explosives
      1. Fission weapons
      2. Boosted fission weapons
      3. H-bombs
   2. Improving warhead accuracies
   3. Nuclear policies
      1. Nuclear deterrence by assured destruction
      2. Nuclear war-fighting and war-winning
      3. ASW systems
      4. ABM systems
6. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons
   1. Peacful versus military atoms
   2. Plutonium production
   3. Clandestine production of fissile material
   4. The need for nuclear testing
7. Nuclear Terrorism
8. Chemical Weapons and Warfare
   1. Types of chemical weapon
      1. Disabling agents
      2. Choking agents
      3. Blister agents
      4. Blood agents
      5. Nerve agents
   2. Effects of exposure to nerve agents
   3. Binary chemical weapons
   4. Past uses of chemical weapons
9. The Spread of Chemical Weapons
   1. The American chemical arsenal
   2. The Russian chemical arsenal
   3. The French chemical arsenal
   4. The proliferation of chemical weapons
      1. Iraq
      2. Other countries
   5. Chemical terrorism
      1. Tabun
      2. Dispersal
10. Biological Warfare
    1. Past uses of biological weapons
    2. Biological-warfare agents
    3. Biological weapons
    4. Attitudes to biological warfare
11. The Spread of Biological Weapons
    1. Biological weapons programmes
       1. Before the Second World War
       2. The Second World War
       3. After the Second World War
12. Military Genetic Engineering
13. Can the Global Arms Trade be Controlled?
14. The Future of the Nuclear Arsenals
    1. The START Treaty
    2. The tactical nuclear arsenals
    3. Unilateral reductions in the nuclear arsenals
    4. Other nuclear-weapon powers
    5. Conclusions
15. The International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
16. The Establishment of Zones Free of Nuclear Weapons
17. Controlling the Export of Nuclear Facilities and Materials
18. The Need for a Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
19. Controlling Chemical and Biological Weapons
20. Verification technologies
    1. Verifying a chemical-weapon treaty
    2. National technical means
       1. Photo-reconnaissonce
       2. Infra-red reconnaissonce
       3. Satellite radar
       4. CCD technology
    3. Verifying conventional force reductions

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