Arms Control Treaties
12 treaties classed as arms control in the database, signed 1967 to 2010, listed by date.
Outer Space Treaty
1967Bars weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies, the moon and planets for peaceful use, no national...
Treaty of Tlatelolco
1967Negotiated in Mexico City, it created the first nuclear weapon free zone over a densely populated region. States renounce nuclear...
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1968The grand bargain, five recognized nuclear states, US, Russia, China, Britain, France, keep weapons but disarm eventually, all...
SALT I
1972Nixon and Brezhnev signed the first strategic arms limits, five year freeze on ICBM, SLBM, and bomber numbers, and the ABM Treaty...
ABM Treaty
1972Limited antiballistic missile defenses to two sites, later one, each, freezing the mutual vulnerability logic, MAD, that kept...
INF Treaty
1987Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated the entire class of ground launched 500 to 5,500 km missiles, Pershing II, SS 20, after...
START I
1991Bush and Gorbachev, the last Soviet treaty, cut deployed strategic warheads to 6,000 and launchers to 1,600 each, verified by 12...
Open Skies Treaty
1992Eisenhower 1955 idea realized post Cold War, mutual unarmed observation flights over signatory territory, sensors certified...
Chemical Weapons Convention
1993Bans an entire weapon class, development, production, stockpiling, use of chemical weapons, with the OPCW inspection and...
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
1996Bans all nuclear test explosions, ending the era of atmospheric and underground blasts, over 2,000 conducted. Comprehensive Test...
Ottawa Treaty
1997Bans anti personnel landmines, the middle power coalition, Canada Lloyd Axworthy, ICBL Nobel 1997, NGOs and small states...
New START
2010Obama and Medvedev cut deployed strategic warheads to 1,550, delivery vehicles to 700, with robust inspections. Last remaining US...