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The following key treaties are organized chronologically.

Key Treaties:

1967 Outer Space Treaty / Summary / Full Text

1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) / Summary / Full Text

1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) / Summary / Full Text

1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) / Summary / Full Text

1979 SALT II / Summary / Full Text

1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) / Summary / Full Text

1994 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) / Summary / Full Text

2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) / Full Text

Not in force. START II / Summary / Full Text

Not in force. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) / Summary / Full Text



Other Relevant Treaties and Agreements:

1929 Kellogg-Briand Pact / Summary / Full Text

1961 Antarctic Treaty / Summary / Full Text

1963 Hot-Line Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union / Summary / Full Text

1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty) / Summary / Full Text

1968 Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy / Summary / Full Text

1968 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) / Summary / Full Text

1971 Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War Between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / Summary / Full Text

1972 Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof / Summary / Full Text

1973 Agreement Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Prevention of Nuclear War / Summary / Full Text

1975 Nuclear Suppliers Group / Summary

1977 Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage / Summary / Full Text

1979 Conference on Disarmament / Summary

1986 South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga) / Summary / Full Text

1986 Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident / Summary / Full Text

1987 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material / Summary / Full Text

1987 Missile Technology Control Regime / Summary / Full Text

1987 Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency / Summary / Full Text

1988 Agreement Between the United States and the Soviet Union on Notifications of Launches of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles / Summary / Full Text

1990 Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapons Tests (Threshold Test Ban Treaty) / Summary / Full Text

1995 No First Use Policy of the Declared Nuclear Weapons States (Negative Security Assurance) / Summary / Full Text

1995 Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) / Summary / Full Text

1996 Convention on Nuclear Safety / Summary

1996 Cairo Declaration / Summary / Full Text

Not yet in force: Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention / Summary / Full Text

Not yet in force: African Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone (Pelindaba Treaty) / Summary / Full Text