List of Treaties and Conventions Related To Arms Control
Some of the more important international arms control agreements follow:
- Washington Naval Treaty, 1922-1939(as part of the naval conferences)
- Geneva Protocol on chemical and biological weapons, 1925
- Antarctic Treaty, signed 1959, entered into force 1961
- Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed and entered into force 1963
- Outer Space Treaty, signed and entered into force 1967
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed 1968, entered into force 1970
- Seabed Arms Control Treaty, signed 1971, entered into force 1972
- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), signed and ratified 1972, in force 1972-1977
- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, signed and entered into force 1972, terminated following U.S. withdrawal 2002
- Biological Weapons Convention, signed 1972, entered into force 1975
- Threshold Test Ban Treaty, signed 1974, entered into force 1990
- SALT II signed 1979, never entered into force
- Environmental Modification Convention, signed 1977, entered into force 1978
- Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, signed 1980, entered into force 1983
- Moon Treaty, signed 1979, entered into force 1984
- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed 1987, entered into force 1988
- Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, (CFE Treaty) signed 1990, entered into force 1992
- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), signed 1991, entered into force 1994, expired 2009
- Chemical Weapons Convention, signed 1993, entered into force 1997
- START II, signed 1993, ratified 1996 (United States) and 2000 (Russia), terminated following Russian withdrawal 2002
- Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel land mines, signed 1997, entered into force 1999
- Open Skies Treaty, signed 1992, entered into force 2002
- Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), signed 2002, entered into force 2003, expires 2012
- Convention on Cluster Munitions, signed 2008, entered into force 2010
- New START Treaty, signed by Russia and the United States in April 2010, entered into force in February 2011
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