Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes

A regularly-updated public reference covering all international organizations, treaties, & agreements relevant to WMD disarmament and nonproliferation.
Updated: Aug 8, 2012

Nonproliferation Treaties

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Nuclear Weapons and Energy


Multilateral

  • Treaty Banning Nuclear Test in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty) (PTBT)
  • Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management
  • Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (Seabed Treaty)


Proposed Multilateral

  • Proposed Fissile Material (Cut-Off) Treaty (FM(C)T)
  • Proposed Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)
  • Proposed Internationally Legally-Binding Negative Security Assurances


Regional (Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones)

Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zones: Comparative Chart
  • Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (LANWFZ) (Tlatelolco Treaty)


Bilateral

  • Treaties between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Strategic Offensive Reductions (START I, START II)
  • Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START)
  • Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (PNE Treaty)
  • Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (INF Treaty)
  • Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty)
  • Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT)
  • Joint Declaration of South and North Korea on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

Chemical and Biological Weapons

  • India-Pakistan Agreement on Chemical Weapons
  • Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous, or Other Gasses, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol)

Space Arms Control

  • Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Moon Agreement)
  • Convention on the Registration of Objects Launched in Outer Space (Launch Registration Convention)
  • Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty)

Conventional Weapons

  • Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCWC)
  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Treaty)
  • The Program of Action of the First UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
  • Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)

Terrorism

  • Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation
  • Draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
  • Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents
  • Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation
  • Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf
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