Arms control

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. On May 26 1972, the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The treaty was in force for thirty years, from 1972 until 2002. On June 13 2002, six months after giving the required notice of intent, the US withdrew from the treaty. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty"

Arms control is a broad term alluding to a range of political concepts and aims. In international affairs, arms control generally refers to limitations on the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weaponry. Arms control typically takes the form of multi-lateral efforts to agree to such limitations upon consenting participants in treaties and agreements, although it can also include efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arms control"

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (usually referred to as just Biological Weapons Convention, abbreviation: BWC) was the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons (with exceptions for medical and defensive purposes in small quantities). It was the result of prolonged efforts by the international community to establish a new instrument that would supplement the 1925 Geneva Protocol. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biological Weapons Convention"

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control ...more on Wikipedia about "Chemical Weapons Convention"

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty"

The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (abbreviated ENMOD Convention) is a 1976 international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. It entered into force on October 5 1978. ...more on Wikipedia about "Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques"

Exercise Deep Sabre is a multi-national maritime interdiction exercise conducted in August 2005 in South China Sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Exercise Deep Sabre"

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union signed in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. It was ratified by the United States Senate on May 27, 1988 and came into force on June 1 of that year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty"

The term naval conference can refer to various conferences that took place during the early 20th century which aimed to regulate naval warfare and armaments. This agreements were completely abandoned by the time World War II had started in 1939. The following conferences can be included under this defintion: ...more on Wikipedia about "Naval conference"

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT, or, much more rarely, NNPT) is a treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968, restricting the possession of nuclear weapons. The vast majority of sovereign states (187) are parties to the treaty. However two out of seven nuclear powers and one possible nuclear power have not ratified the treaty. The treaty was proposed by Ireland, Finland was the first to sign. In New York City, on May 11, 1995, more than 170 countries decided to extend the treaty indefinitely and without conditions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"

The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center is part of the United States Department of State. It has counterpart in Moscow in the Russian Ministry of Defense. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear Risk Reduction Center"

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program is a 1991 U.S. law sponsored by Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn. The program provided funding and expertise for former Soviet states including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan and Belarus to decommission nuclear, biological and chemical weapon stockpiles, as agreed by the Soviet Union under disarmament treaties such as SALT II. Under the scrutiny of American contractors, nuclear warheads would be removed from their delivery vehicles, then decommissioned or stockpiled at designated sites in Russia. The bill's philosophy is widely summarized in the biblical phrase swords into ploughshares. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction"

The Patrick Henry League was founded in 1958 by Robert A. Heinlein and his wife, Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfield. Provoked by an advertising campaign by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, whom Heinlein described as "communist-line propagandists", he mounted a petition drive to urge then President Eisenhower to resist communist-orchestrated pressure "to stop our nuclear weapons tests, turn our missile and space program over to the UN, and in other ways to weaken our defenses" and to oppose the proposal for a unilateral cessation of American nuclear weapons testing in 1958. The premise was based on both Patrick Henry's Give me liberty or give me death speech and the Soviet Union's poor record of promise keeping. President Eisenhower did initate the ban, the Soviets did not reciprocate and went on to test even larger and dirtier bombs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patrick Henry League"

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is an international effort led by the United States to interdict transfer of banned weapons and weapons technology. The PSI is primarily focussed on combatting proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials. The initiative is designed to work within the framework of other international agreements and the role of participating countries varies. The PSI consists of 15 core countries, which alongside the US include Russia, Japan, France, Germany and Britain. A further 60 countries have agreed to cooperate on an ad hoc basis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proliferation Security Initiative"

The Treaty of Rarotonga is the common name for the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, which formalizes a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the South Pacific. The treaty bans the use, testing, and possession of nuclear weapons within the borders of the zone. It was signed by the South Pacific nations of Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Western Samoa in the city of Rarotonga (the capital of the Cook Islands) on August 6, 1985, and has since been ratified by all of those states. In addition, the Federal States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau are eligible, but have not yet signed the treaty. There are three protocols to the treaty: the first governs territiories held by nuclear armed states in the zone, the others govern nuclear states in general. ...more on Wikipedia about "Treaty of Rarotonga"

The Washington Naval Treaty limited the naval armaments of its five signatories - the United States of America, the British Empire, Japan, France, and Italy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Washington Naval Treaty"

"The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" is an arms control ...more on Wikipedia about "Wassenaar Arrangement"

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