Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements
Abstract
Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that the United States has occasionally used to implement its national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behavior of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain U.S. military forces and operations, many others see them as an effective means to promote transparency, ease military planning, limit forces, and protect against uncertainty and surprise. Arms control and nonproliferation efforts have produced formal treaties and agreements, informal arrangements, and cooperative threat reduction and monitoring mechanisms. The international community has also adopted a number of agreements that address non-nuclear weapons. The CFE Treaty and Open Skies Treaty sought to stabilize the conventional balance in Europe in the waning years of the Cold War. Other arrangements seek to slow the spread of technologies that nations could use to develop advanced conventional weapons. The Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons Conventions mandate elimination of both types of weapons.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 25, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1177665
Entities
People
- Amy F. Woolf
- Mary Beth D. Nikitin
- Paul K. Kerr
Organizations
- Library of Congress