Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments information
1932–34 meeting in Switzerland on global disarmament
Geneva Conference
Arthur Henderson speaking at the conference on 2 February 1932
Begins
1 February 1932
Ends
November 1934
Location(s)
Geneva
Coordinates
46.2044° N, 6.1432° E
Country
Switzerland
Participants
31 nations
Organised by
League of Nations
The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, generally known as the Geneva Conference or World Disarmament Conference, was an international conference of states held in Geneva, Switzerland, between February 1932 and November 1934 to accomplish disarmament in accordance with the Covenant of the League of Nations. It was attended by 61 states, most of which were members of the League of Nations, but the USSR and the United States also attended.[1]
The conference was a response to the militarisation of global powers during and after the First World War. Aimed towards a global reduction in arms, the conference was organised and campaigned for by the League of Nations with the main objective to avoid another world war.
The conference symbolised global co-operation to a combined goal of limiting arms, but it is generally perceived as a failure because of the onset of the Second World War five years later and the withdrawal of Nazi Germany from both the conference and the League.
The conference's main objectives included defining aggressively-offensive weapons, reasonably-defensive weapons, abolishing submarines, aviation and heavy-duty tanks and limiting land forces.
^Philip John Noel-Baker, First World Disarmament Conference and Why It Failed (1979)
and 24 Related for: Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments information
TheConferencefortheReductionandLimitationofArmaments, generally known as the Geneva Conference or World Disarmament Conference, was an international...
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferencesand corresponding international treaties involving the United States...
discard in case the Conference for the Reduction and LimitationofArmaments requested it. Because the Mark V* had been lengthened, its original length-width...
formal name of Measures forthe Further ReductionandLimitationof Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague, and after ratification...
and it was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on April 16, 1924. Later naval arms limitationconferences sought additional limitations...
Conference for the ReductionandLimitationofArmamentsof 1932–1934 (sometimes World Disarmament Conference or Geneva Disarmament Conference) was an effort...
of all WMD, coupled with the “balanced reductionof armed forces and conventional armaments, based on the principle of undiminished security ofthe parties...
councilor in Paris and Berlin, and attended the London Naval ConferenceandtheConferencefortheReductionandLimitationofArmaments. He was then plenipotentiary...
concentrated on armaments, their limitationandreduction, and arms control. The commission also recommended that SIPRI work is of "an applied research character...
regulation, limitation and balanced reductionof all armed forces and all armaments, including the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction. However, this...
the WPC's silence about Russian armaments were often shouted down at WPC conferencesand by the early 1960s they had dissociated themselves from the WPC...
succeeded the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 nations met in San Francisco, California for a conferenceand started...
Global Information