The United Nations and disarmament 1945-1970

Prepared by the Disarmament Affairs Division of the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, pursuant to a consensus adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session. Provides an account of the deliberations and negotiations on disarmament in the United Nations during the quarter century from 1945 to early 1970. Contains a foreword by the United Nations Secretary-General.
Part 1. Initial efforts: 1946-1950 -- Chapter 1. The Atomic Energy Commission -- Chapter 2. The Commission for Conventional Armaments -- Part 2. General disarmament: 1951-1970 -- Chapter 3. Regulation, Limitation and Balanced Reduction of All Armed Forces and All Armaments, 1951-1958 -- Chapter 4. General and Complete Disarmament, 1959-1970 -- Chapter 5. Economic and Social Consequences of Disarmament -- Part 3. Collateral measures of disarmament -- Chapter 6. Collateral Measures of Disarmament -- Chapter 7. Outer Space and Disarmament -- Chapter 8. The Problem of the Prevention of an Arms Race on the Sea-Bed -- Part 4. The discontinuance of nuclear weapon tests -- Chapter 9. Early Initiatives, 1954-1958 -- Chapter 10. The Period of the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests, 1958-1962 -- Chapter 11. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 -- Chapter 12. Efforts to Achieve a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, 1964-1970 -- Part 5. Prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons -- Chapter 13. Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter 14. The Conference of Non-Nuclear-Weapon States -- Chapter 15. Nuclear-Free Zones -- Part 6. The question of bacteriological (biological) weapons -- Chapter 16. Efforts to Achieve a Comprehensive Ban on Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons

Antarctic Treaty (1959)
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water (1963)
Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (1967)
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (1967)
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)

xvi, 515 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxx) and index.
At head of title: "Département des affaires politiques et des affaires du conseil de sécurite".