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| Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty—a bilateral treaty signed in 1972 between the US and the Soviet Union. It restricted each party to only two anti-ballistic missile deployment areas (and in 1974 a Protocol resticted each side to only one such area).
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| Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—entered into force in 1975 and bans States Parties from possessing biological weapons.
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| Conference on Disarmament, Geneva. The CD is the international community's sole permanent multilateral disarmament negotiating forum
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| Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty—opened for signature in 1996 but will not enter intro force until it is ratified by 44 named states, which are deemed to be nuclear weapons capable.
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| Chemical Weapons Convention—entered into force in 1997 and bans States Parties from possessing chemical weapons.
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| Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty—the essential purpose of this Treaty, which has yet to be negotiated, would be to end the production of those materials without which no nuclear weapon or other explosive device can be made to explode, essentially plutonium and high enriched uranium.
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| IAEA | -
| International Atomic Energy Agency—implements the safeguards required by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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| National Missile Defence
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| Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons—entered into force in 1975 and aims to prevent spread of nuclear weapons and, ulitmately, to achieve their complete abolition.
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| NSG | -
| Nuclear Suppliers Group
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| Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons
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| UNMOVIC | -
| United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission
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