ABSTRACT
A wide variety of types of international control exists, ranging from more non-institutionalized, mutual control based on the exchange of relevant information between the contracting parties, to highly systematized control with specific control organizations and a large number of control procedures. In general the trend is towards the development of more of these latter types of control in response to the rapid development and growing number of international organizations. The difficulty in establishing an unambiguous definition for the word ‘control’ is only too well known. Not only does the word have different meanings in different languages, but even within individual languages, it may have a range of meanings. The Woods Hole Summer Study of 1962 defines verification of disarmament as ‘the totality of means, of which inspection is just one, by which one nation can determine whether another nation is complying with obligations under an arms control or disarmament agreement’.
