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Bureau of Nonproliferation
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

NUCLEAR

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

  • 01-05-01: Summary of Recommendations to the President and the Secretary of State on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Washington, DC
  • 01-04-01: Gen. John M. Shalikashvili (USA Ret.), Letter to the President and Report on the Findings and Recommendations Concerning the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Washington, DC
  • 12-05-00: Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Signatories/Ratifiers
  • 09-22-97: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Chronology During Clinton Administration
  • 09-22-97: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Safeguards
  • 09-10-96: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
  • 10-09-97: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: "The Longest-Sought, Hardest-Fought Prize in the History of Arms Control"
Fissile Material Cut-Off
  • 06-29-99: Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
  • 03-27-97: Fissile Material Production Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) Negotiations
Non-Proliferation
  • 07-01-00: 2000 NPT Review Conference Achieves an "Historic Consensus"
  • 05-00: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: A Global Success
  • 04-00: NPT Article IV: U.S. Support for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
  • 04-01-00: Article IV of the NPT: U.S. Support for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
  • 04-01-00: U.S. Commitment to NPT Article VI
  • 04-01-00: U.S. Commitment to NPT Article VI: The Record from May 1995 to April 2000
  • 03-00: U.S. Nonproliferation Concerns
  • 05-03-99: U.S. Commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
  • 05-15-97: International Nuclear Safeguards Strengthened
  • 05-95: Decision Papers from the NPT Review and Extension Conference
  • 04-05-95: A Declaration By the President on Security Assurances for Non-Nuclear Weapon States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
  • 02-14-95: START I: Lisbon Protocol and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
  • 10-21-94: U.S.-Democratic People's Republic of Korea Agreed Framework
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones
  • 01-09-01: African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (The Treaty of Pelindaba) Dates of Signature, Ratification and Deposit
  • 12-10-97: South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty
  • 04-11-96: African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty
  • 04-11-96: Argentina and Chile Bring Into Force the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (The Treaty of Tlatelolco)
BIOLOGICAL
  • 09-19-00: Parties and Signatories of the Biological Weapons Convention
  • 11-26-96: Remarks to the Fourth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention
  • 11-20-96: Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference 1996
  • 11-12-96: Biological Weapons Convention
  • 11-07-95: Australia Group Export Controls on Materials Used in the Manufacture of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Control List of Dual-Use Chemicals: Commercial and Military Application
CHEMICAL
  • 11-28-00: Chemical Weapons Convention Signatories/Ratifiers
  • 04-01-00: Australia Group
  • 01-99: Implementing Legislation
  • 01-20-99: Australia Group: Australia Group Meeting, 9-15 October 1998, Paris
  • 09-98: The Chemical Weapons Convention
  • 05-99: Chemical Weapons Convention: A Balance Between Obligations and the Needs of States Parties
  • 05-99: Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  • 09-98: U.S.-Russian Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding on Chemical Weapons
  • 10-15-97: Australia Group: Australia Group Meeting, 6-9 October 1997, Paris
  • 11-07-95: Australia Group Export Controls on Materials Used in the Manufacture of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Control List of Dual-Use Chemicals: Commercial and Military Application
  • 10-93: Guidelines for Schedules of Chemicals
Export Controls
  • 11-30-00: The Nuclear Suppliers Group
  • 11-30-00: Zangger Committee
  • 03-00:The Glenn Amendment to the Arms Export Control Act
  • 08-11-98: Small Arms Issues: U.S. Policy and Views
  • 12-17-96: Multilateral Nuclear Export Control Regimes
  • 10-06-95: Export Controls on Computers
  • 01-16-94: Joint Statement on Issues of Export Controls and Policy in the Area of Transfers of Conventional Weapons and Dual-Use Technologies
Missile Technology Control Regime
  • 03-22-00: Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies
  • 02-08-00: Commonly Asked Questions on the Missile Technology Control Regime
  • 02-08-00: Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
  • 10-11-99: Plenary Meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime 1999
  • 11-26-97: Commonly Asked Questions on the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
  • 11-06-97: Missile Technology Control Regime Holds Plenary Meeting in Tokyo
  • 11-06-97: Missile Technology Control Regime Joint Appeal
  • 10-16-97: Missile Technology Control Regime Marks 10th Anniversary
  • 09-15-97: The Missile Technology Control Regime


Bureau of Nonproliferation