Preface

response to the note of the Secretariat of the United Nations (EC 121(13)) of itember 22, 1961, requesting that a maximum of information be furnished on the aomic and social consequences of disarmament in the United States in order to assist

Consultative Group of Experts appointed by the Secretary-General in its compresive and worldwide examination of this problem, the U.S. Government in December 1 transmitted to the Secretariat a volume containing extensive data and analyses ited to the outline prepared by the Consultative Group.

The note of the Secretariat also transmitted the Group's recommendation that govments of countries whose nationals were on the Group and which bear a major share the world's arms burden submit an appropriate study for their country.

The present study, which may be considered as Part II of the U.S. Submission, i prepared in accordance with this recommendation. It incorporates all of the essen

information previously submitted, with such correction and modification as more Hit information and the requirements of an integrated and balanced overall analysis gested. It was also possible to include some material which for various reasons was

available for the first part of the U.S. Submission transmitted in December 1961.