Armed conflicts and conflict management, with an overview of armed conflicts and peace processes as well as a focus on global and regional trends in peace operations. World nuclear forces, with an overview of each of the nine nuclear-armed states and their nuclear modernization programmers. As well as annexes listing arms control and disarmament agreements, international security cooperation bodies. This book is as an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.