Status of nuclear forces - Support for US efforts to conclude SALT negotiations - Concern over Soviet modernization of theatre nuclear force systems - Maintenance and modernization of NATO's theatre nuclear forces - Importance of arms control - Maritime theatre nuclear weapons - Soviet maritime capabilities.

Warsaw Pact military build-up - Interdependence of deterrence and détente - MBFR - SALT - Recent developments in Soviet theatre nuclear capabilities - Soviet strategic capability - Ministerial Guidance - Implementation of LTDP - TNF modernization - Coordinated defence planning - Defence expenditure: efforts to achieve 3% goal - 5-year Infrastructure Programme - Eurogroup - CNAD rationalization efforts - Assistance to Portugal and Turkey - Maintenance of adequate deterrent and defence posture.

30th Anniversary of the Alliance - Economic cooperation - East- West relations - détente - Salt II agreement - CSCE - Berlin and Germany - MBFR - 1978 French proposal for conventional arms limitations and reductions - Growing Soviet theatre nuclear capabilities - Equipment cooperation - Civil emergency planning and rapid reinforcement of Allied forces in Europe - The Middle East - Greek-Turkish dialogue - The Mediterranean - NATO Science Programme - High Level Group on TNF modernization - Special Group on arms control.

The nuclear threat - SALT II - Soviet strategic developments - Theatre nuclear force disparities - Vulnerability of longer range theatre nuclear forces - Widening gap in long range TNF capabilities - TNF modernization - Arms control - SS-20 missile and BACKFIRE bomber - Conventional forces - Nuclear Planning Group - Spring 1980 Ministerial Meeting.

Arms control and military security - SALT II - MBFR - Soviet long range theatre nuclear forces - Challenges to the security of the Alliance - 1979 Defence Review - LTDP - Air defence programme for ACE - Deterrent and defensive posture - New force goals - Military assistance to Portugal and Turkey - NATO Armaments Planning Review - Periodical Armaments Planning System - Eurogroup - 1980-1984 force plan.

Quantitative and qualitative improvements to Soviet long range nuclear capability - Modernization and expansion of Soviet TNF - Parallel courses of TNF modernization and arms control - European deployment of US ground-launched systems - Withdrawal of 1000 US nuclear warheads - Proposed inclusion of US and Soviet long range theatre nuclear systems in arms control efforts - Special high level consultative body on negotiations in the field of arms limitations.

Spring 1980 Ministerial Meeting - East-West relations - Concern over actions of the Soviet Union and some of its allies in troubled areas - Warsaw Pact military build-up - Indivisibility of détente - Effective use of resources - Transatlantic Dialogue - Arms control and disarmament negotiations - SALT II - Madrid CSCE Follow-up Meeting - French CDE proposal - MBFR - Berlin and Germany - Situation in the Mediterranean - Greek-Turkish dialogue - Economic problems of certain member countries - The Middle East - Zimbabwe-Rhodesia - CCMS - 12th December Special Meeting - Efforts to improve East-West relations in the 1980s.