Disarmament

A Basic Guide

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

• Publisher: United Nations
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9789211423235
• eBook ISBN: 9789213582534
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Arms Control
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first century. It was written with the general reader in mind and it strives to be accessible without downplaying the complexity of the issues it explores. This fourth edition includes updated figures, tables and treaty statuses; new analysis of the key developments since 2012; discussion of two recently agreed legal instruments, the Arms Trade Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; and a new chapter on emerging threats from cyber weaponry, unmanned combat aerial vehicles and lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Appendix 1

Arms Control and Disarmament Treaties and Related Instruments

	Dates of entry into force
African Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty)	2009
Agreed Framework (United States and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)	1994
Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies	1984
Antarctic Treaty	1961
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (United States and former Soviet Union)	1972 (United States withdrew in 2001)
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention	1999
Arms Trade Treaty	2014
Biological Weapons Convention	1975
Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and All Parts and Components That Can Be Used for Their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly (Kinshasa Convention)	2017
	1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	Not yet entered into force
Convention on Cluster Munitions	2010
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	1983
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	1987
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques	1978
Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials	1998
Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions	2002
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (United States and former Soviet Union)	1988
International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (The Hague Code of Conduct)	2002
International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism	2007
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (China, France, Germany, Iran, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States, as well as the European Union)	2015
Missile Technology Control Regime	1993
Outer Space Treaty	1967
Partial Test Ban Treaty	1963
Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (United States and former Soviet Union)	1976
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare	1928
Sea-bed Arms Control Treaty	1972
South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Rarotonga Treaty)	1986
Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Bangkok Treaty)	1997
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) (United States and former Soviet Union)	1969-1972
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) (United States and former Soviet Union)	Did not enter into force
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) (United States and former Soviet Union)	1994 (expired December 2009)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) (United States and former Soviet Union)	Did not enter into force
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) (United States and former Soviet Union)	2002
Threshold Test Ban Treaty (United States and former Soviet Union)	1990
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)	1969
Treaty on a C...

Table of contents

• Disarmament A Basic Guide
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 01. Why Is Disarmament Important?
• 02. Global Military Expenditures
• 03. Nuclear Weapons
• 04. Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• 05. Chemical Weapons
• 06. Biological Weapons
• 07. Missiles and Missile Defence
• 08. Conventional Arms and the Arms Trade
• 09. Small Arms and Light Weapons
• 10. Landmines
• 11. Cluster Munitions
• 12. New and Emerging Weapons Technologies
• 13. Children and Armed Conflict
• 14. Women, Peace and Security
• 15. The United Nations and the Work of Disarmament
• 16. Stay Informed and Get Involved
• Appendix 1. Arms Control and Disarmament Treaties and Related Instruments
• Appendix 2. References