This is a list of treaties that address issues of nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and nuclear energy. The date is given for the signature of each treaty, not its entry into force. This does not include non-treaties such as secret agreements.
Nuclear weapons
Arms limitation
- 1968, multilateral: Outer Space Treaty - banned stationing nuclear weapons in space
- 1971, multilateral: Seabed Arms Control Treaty - banned nuclear weapons on international ocean floor
- 1972, US-USSR: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - limited parties to two ABM complexes of 100 missiles each
- 1987, US-USSR: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - banned ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges 500âÂÂ5,500 km
- 1990, multilateral: Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany - banned nuclear weapons stationing in the new states of Germany
- 1991, US-USSR: START I - limited party deployed warheads to 6,000 and ICBM plus bomber total to 1,600
- 1992, US-Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan-Ukraine: Lisbon Protocol - bound all states to START I and committed Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty
- 1993, US-Russia: START II - banned MIRVs
- proposed, US-Russia: START III - would have limited party deployed warheads to 2,500, 2,000, or 1,500
- 2002, US-Russia: Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty - limited party deployed warheads to 2,200
- 2010, US-Russia: New START - limited party deployed strategic warheads to 1,550
- 2017, multilateral: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - banned all nuclear weapons for parties
Testing
Nuclear weapon-free zones
Nuclear energy
Other
Proposed
See also
References