ABSTRACT
While it will be for later sections of this book to fit into some sort of categories the various kinds of maritime arms control measure, it is worth noting at the outset of this brief historical survey that the period before 1939 held nearly all the available forms of control, at one time or another. 1 There were restrictions on deployments in certain areas, on bases, on inventories of both platforms and weapons, on the employment of certain weapons, on the modalities of warfare. Some of the provisions could be called confidence-building measures. Negotiations were conducted with deliberation and in great detail. We need not think there is anything very new under the sun.
