1. Some Conventions in this field provided for limits on armament (but these limits were always beyond the actual situation) or a freezing of the existing situation, e.g. where it was agreed to refrain from militarisation of Antarctica, installation of nuclear weapons on the sea-bed or stationing of nuclear weapons in outer space.

2. B.V.A. Röling: Friedenssicherung duich Völkerrecht, – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, in Schaumann, Wilfried: Völkerrechtliches Gewaltverbot und Friedenssicherung, Baden-Baden, 1972, p. 89–114, p. 93.Google Scholar

3. The post-war peace treaties limiting also national freedom of armament, such as those concluded with Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Finland and Italy, which all provide for limitations on ABC weapons (for Italy this limitation was abolished by the Allied Powers in 1951) are not included, nor are the provisions on arms limitation in the Paris Treaties of 1954 (with regard the German Federal Republic) and the Austrian State Treaty.