Introduction

One of the important functions of the United Nations Centre for Disarmament is the presentation of information; 1980 witnessed further growth of interest in this area. A major element of the task is the production of The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook and this is the fifth volume in the series. As before, the aims are to provide a comprehensive and authoritative summary of the principal deliberations, negotiations and developments in the field of disarmament during the year and to present the information not in the complex order in which matters were discussed but chapter by chapter according to subject. In this way it is hoped that the reader, whether practitioner, researcher or interested student, may follow more easily the development of each aspect of the disarmament agenda.

Related Subject(s): Disarmament