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Introduction -- The role of the United Nations in the field of disarmament -- The qualitative arms race; proliferation of advanced technologies -- The monitoring and verification of disarmament agreements -- Economic aspects of disarmament -- The question of general and complete disarmament: The comprehensive programme of disarmament -- Nuclear-Arms limitation and disarmament; prevention of nuclear war -- The fourth review conference of the parties to the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons -- Cessation of all nuclear-test explosions -- Effective international arrangements to assure Non-Nuclear-Weapon states against the use or threat of use of Nuclear Weapons -- Nuclear-Weapon-Free zones and zones of peace -- Peaceful uses of nuclear energy and IAEA safeguards and related activities -- Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons -- Prevention of an arms race in outer space -- New weapons of mass destruction; radiological weapons -- Conventional weapons -- Treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe -- Regional disarmament and confidence-and security-building measures -- United Nations disarmament studies programme -- Information programme; World disarmament campaign -- Activities of the department for disarmament affairs -- Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements -- Treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe -- Vienna document 1990 of the negotiations on confidence- and security-building measures convened in accordance with the relevant provisions of the concluding document of the Vienna meeting of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe -- Agreement between the United States of America and the union of soviet socialist republics on destruction and non-production of chemical weapons and on measures to facilitate the multilateral convention on banning chemical weapons -- Activities of the United Nations institute for disarmament research -- List of resolutions and decisions on disarmament and related q