Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1985 (Creation)
- 1945-1982 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
11 reels and one published guide
Scope and content
Documents on Disarmament, 1945- 1982, is a themed microfilm collection including documents on arms control and disarmament developments, 1945-1982. Subjects include relations with the US Atomic Energy Commission; proposed prohibition requirements for the production of biological and chemical weapons; bilateral talks between the Soviet Union and the United States, including the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (START); US negotiations with aligned and non-aligned states; Commission on Security and Co- operation in Europe (CSCE) arms control talks; negotiations with UN organisations including the Ad Hoc Group on Disarmament and Development, the Commission for Conventional Armaments, the Disarmament Commission, international Atomic Energy Agency, and the Security Council, 1945-1982.
System of arrangement
The documents are arranged in chronological order. The accompanying published guide has a brief content list for each reel and a subject index.
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with fully indexed guide edited by Paul Kesaris.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.
Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Existence and location of originals
US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 320 21st St. NW, Washington, DC, 20451, USA
Note
Compiled Jul 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Arms control
- Biological warfare
- Chemical warfare
- Diplomacy
- Disarmament
- Energy resources
- Foreign relations
- International cooperation
- International instruments
- International law
- International politics
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Non-proliferation
- Nonrenewable energy sources
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear weapons
- Peace
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (1972-1979)
- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 1992-1999
- Warfare
- Weapons
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.