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War, weapons & victims : legal responses: Arms control

Arms control

Subject searches to try in SOLO:

Disarmament  
Arms control  

Military weapons (International law)
Military weapons -- Law and legislation -- United States
Weapons systems -- Automation

Land mines (International law)
Mines (Military explosives) (International law)

Autonomous robots -- Law and legislation
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
Autonomous robots -- Moral and ethical aspects
Drone aircraft -- Moral and ethical aspects

Weapons of mass destruction 

Nuclear nonproliferation 
Nuclear arms control  
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear disarmament

Security, International 

For monographs on this topic use search terms
Arms transfers -- Law and legislation
Arms control
Arms control -- International cooperation

Illegal arms transfers

Military weapons (International law)
Military weapons -- Law and legislation -- +jurisdiction
Weapons systems -- Automation
Autonomous robots -- Law and legislation
Autonomous robots -- Moral and ethical aspects
Cyberspace operations (International law)
Drone aircraft -- Moral and ethical aspects
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)

NOTE Biological and chemical weapons are sometimes classed - together with nuclear - as "weapons of mass destruction."

Subject searches to use in SOLO
Biological arms control
Chemical arms control

Specific subject searches to try in SOLO

Cluster bombs -- Law and legislation
Mines (Military explosives)

NOTE In commentary, "weapons of mass destruction" can be used to include biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.

There is the specific Nuclear weapons (International law) subject search for SOLO.

Further guidance on particular aspects of IHL