The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 1993, vol. 18.

• Author: Fruchtbaum, Harold

UN Centre for Disarmament Affairs, New York United Nations Publications, 1994 419 pp. $50. Sales No, E.94.IX.1 ISBN 92-1-142204-3

The timely appearance of the concise and well-written Disarmament Yearbook, with its texts of General Assembly resolutions and appendices of documents, is always welcome. "During 1993", the Yearbook states, "although threats to international peace were posed by ethnic strife and militant nationalism and fundamentalism, they did not prevent further progress towards disarmament". The United States and the Russian Federation, for example, reduced their inventories of mass destruction nuclear weapons. A de facto moratorium on nuclear testing continued, and substantive negotiations...