DTIC ADA472887: Arms Control and Nonproliferation Activities pdf

DTIC ADA472887: Arms Control and Nonproliferation Activities

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This report contains brief descriptions of the most prominent arms control and nonproliferation efforts in which the United States has participated during recent years. The entries describe the substance of each arms control effort, the period in which the effort occurred, and the status of the effort at the end of 2004. The first section of this report describes arms control efforts between the United States and the states of the former Soviet Union. Among the agreements described here are the START Treaties that impose deep reductions on strategic offensive nuclear weapons in the United States and former Soviet Union. START I entered into force in late 1994; both the United States and Russia approved START II, but it did not enter into force and has fallen aside with the negotiation of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. It also describes the debate over the ABM Treaty, U.S.

policy on missile defenses, and the U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty. The second section reviews efforts, by the United States and its allies, to assist the states of the former Soviet Union with the elimination and enhanced security of their nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the associated materials. The third section of this report describes several agreements that affect conventional weapons. These include the CFE Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty, along with efforts to control or ban anti-personnel landmines. The fourth section of this report focus on multilateral nonproliferation efforts, such as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. This section also describes non-nuclear nonproliferation efforts, such as the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention, and efforts to control the proliferation of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 1/7/2005
• Year: 2005
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Woolf, Amy F, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE, *NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION, *NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TESTING, *ARMS CONTROL, WEAPONS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, GUIDED MISSILES, REDUCTION, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, CHEMICAL ORDNANCE, ANTIPERSONNEL AMMUNITION, LAND MINES, DUAL MODE, TREATIES, RUSSIA, STRATEGIC WEAPONS, USSR, UNITED STATES, POLICIES, DEFENSE SYSTEMS

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