Treaties & Agreements

 African Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Treaty

April 11, 1996
This treaty, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba, ensures the denuclearization of Africa.
 Agreed Framework Between The United States of America And
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
October 21, 1994
This framework between the United States and the DPRK resolves the nuclear issue on the
Korean Peninsula by replacing the DPRK’s graphite moderated reactors and related facilities
with other alternative energy arrangements.
 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
May 26, 1972
The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to each have only two ABM deployment areas so
restricted and located that the ABM areas cannot provide a nationwide defense or become the
basis for developing one.
 Arms Trade Treaty
June 3, 2013
This treaty establishes common international standards for regulating the international trade in
conventional arms, and seeks to prevent and eradicate the illicit trade in conventional arms and
prevent their diversion. 
 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
April 10, 1972
This was the first multilateral disarmament treaty that banned the development, production, and
stockpiling of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.
 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
January 13, 1993
This is a multilateral treaty that requires, within a certain timeframe, the ultimate destruction of
chemical weapons and the prohibition of development, production, stockpiling and use of
chemical weapons.
 Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
September 24, 1996
This is a legally binding global ban on all nuclear explosive testing.
 Convention on Cluster Munitions
December 3, 2008
This treaty, through prohibition and a framework for action, addresses the humanitarian
consequences of civilians by cluster munitions.
 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
 December 8, 1987
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union requires destruction of ground-
launched ballistic and cruise missiles with certain ranges, and associated equipment within three
years of the Treaty entering into force.
 International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile
Proliferation (ICOC)
November 25, 2002
This code is an agreement between states on how they should conduct their missile trade and
bolsters efforts to curb ballistic missile proliferation.
 Latin America Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of
Tlatelolco)
February 14, 1967
This treaty prohibits Latin American states from not only acquiring and possessing nuclear
weapons, but also from allowing the storage or deployment of nuclear weapons on their
territories by other states.
 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT)
August 5, 1963
This prohibits nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, under water, and in any
other environment if the explosions cause radioactive debris to be present outside the territory of
a responsible state.
 Mine Ban Treaty
December 3, 1997
This treaty seeks to eradicate landmines by prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production, and
transfer of antipersonnel mines.
 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
April 16, 1987
This limits the spread of ballistic missiles and other unmanned delivery systems used for
chemical, biological and nuclear attacks by encouraging its 35 member states to restrict their
exports of technologies capable of delivering any type of WMD.
 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
April 8, 2010
A treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States with central standards on further
reduction and limitation of offensive arms to be met by February 5, 2018.
 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)
July 1, 1968
This treaty is the basis of international cooperation on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons by
promoting disarmament, nonproliferation, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
 Open Skies Treaty
 March 24, 1992
This treaty establishes a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over state territories and
enhances mutual understanding of and increase transparency in military forces and activities.
 Outer Space Treaty
January 27, 1967
This prevented states from placing nuclear weapons or other WMD’s into Earth’s orbit, and
prohibited states from installing such weapons on the Moon or celestial bodies or stationing them
in outer space in any other manner.
 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNET)
May 28, 1976
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union prohibits peaceful nuclear explosions
not covered by the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, and verifies all data exchanges and visits to sites
of explosions through national technical means.
 Seabed Arms Control Treaty
February 11, 1971
This treaty sought to prevent the introduction of international conflict and nuclear weapons in
areas already free of them.
 South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of
Rarotonga)
August 6, 1985
This prohibits the manufacture, possession, or control of nuclear explosives, the dumping of
radioactive wastes at sea within the defined zone, and the testing or stationing nuclear explosive
devices within state territories.
 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
July 1, 1972
These negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union slowed the arms race in
strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons by curbing the manufacture of strategic
missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II)
June 18, 1979
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the Interim Agreement with
a long-term comprehensive treaty that provided broad limits on strategic offensive weapons
systems.
 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I (START I)
July 31, 1991
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation was the first to
call for reductions of U.S. and Soviet/Russian strategic nuclear weapons and served as a
framework for future, more severe reductions.
 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II)
January 3, 1993
This treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation implemented reductions in two
phases in order to meet the established limit on strategic weapons for both states.
 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT)
May 24, 2002
This treaty required the United States and the Russian Federation to reduce their deployed
strategic nuclear forces. It took effect and expired on Dec. 31, 2012. Both could then change the
size of their deployed strategic nuclear forces.
 Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT)
July 3, 1974
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union established a nuclear threshold
through the prohibition of the testing of new or existing nuclear weapons with a yield exceeding
150 kilotons.
 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
July 17, 2017
This treaty prohibits the use, threat of use, development, production, manufacturing, acquisition,
possession, stockpiling, transfer, stationing and installment of nuclear weapons or assistance with
any prohibited activities.