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Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy - Conducts research and publishes information on negotiations and verification of arms control, disarmament and related treaties and agreements. Also publishes Disarmament Documentation, a compilation by Dr. Sean Howard of recent official documents and statements on arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.
Americans for Gun Safety Foundation - Seeks to educate Americans on existing gun laws and new policy options for reducing access to guns by criminals and children and to promote responsible gun ownership.
Arms Control Association (ACA) - Works to increase public knowledge and understanding of arms control issues through factsheets and background papers on arms control agreements and issues. Publishes Arms Control Today.
Arms Fixers, The: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents - Arms brokers and transport agents locate arms as cheaply as possible. Then some send them by circuitous international routes to the most conflict-torn countries and regions of human rights abuse in the world. This study looks at what they do, and makes proposals for stopping it.
Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) - The U.S. Congress established the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program in 1997 to test and demonstrate at least two alternative technologies to the baseline incineration process for the demilitarization of assembled chemical weapons. Assembled chemical weapons are configured with fuses, explosives, propellant, chemical agents, shipping and firing tubes and packaging materials. In 1999, ACWA was authorized to manage the development and pilot scale testing of these alternative destruction technologies.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence - U.S. national grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence through handgun control efforts.
British American Security Information Council (BASIC) - BASIC is an independent research organization that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CATT) - A broad coalition of groups and individuals in the UK working to end the international arms trade. This trade has a negative effect on human rights and security as well as on global, regional and local economic development.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation - Seeks the reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons as a significant tool of U.S. national security policy. The Center covers numerous peace and security issues affected by proliferation of weapons of mass destruction including U.S. nonproliferation programs, national missile defense, failed and post-conflict states and irresponsible defense spending.
Center for Defense Institute (CDI) - An independent monitor of the military. CDI operates as one of the foremost research organization in the country analyzing military spending, policies, and weapons systems.
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) - Exposes and opposes Canada's role in the international arms trade, particularly where there is trade to governments which are engaged in war or which violate human rights.
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) - Emerged from the civil rights movement in the early 1970s and pushes a progressive agenda to reduce firearm death and injury.
Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction - Report of the Commission to Assess Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Presented to the U.S. Senate on July 14, 199.
Council for a Livable World - Arms control organization focusing on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, opposing a national missile defense system, cutting Pentagon waste and reducing excessive arms exports.
CTBTO Preparatory Commission - The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO Preparatory Commission) is an international organization established by the States Signatories to the Treaty on 19 November 1996. It carries out the necessary preparations for the effective implementation of the Treaty, and prepares for the first session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty. The Commission's main task is the establishment of the 337 facility International Monitoring System and the International Data Centre, and the development of operational manuals, including for on-site inspections.
Depleted Uranium Education Project - It matters little to the Pentagon in its race for unrestrained military dominance in every type of warfare that this new weapon not only kills those it targets, it poisons soldiers who handle it, civilians for hundreds of miles surrounding the battlefields who breathe the air and drink the water, and unborn generations. This site provides information and resources for fighting against the use of depleted uranium.
Disarmament Diplomacy - Journal publishing on disarmament and non-proliferation issues.
Federation of American Scientists (FAS) - FAS is engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy concerning global security. Several arms and nuclear weapons related sections appear on the FAS site, including:
For Mother Earth - International campaign for disarmament, ecology and human rights.
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) - Dedicated to informing the public about science and policy issues affecting international security. Its efforts focus on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. Also see Roadmap to Responsible Export Controls.
International Arms Control Treaties - A check list, report on, and full text of the major international arms control treaties, covering in particular those dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as relevant export control, conventional weapons and landmines treaties, including:
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) - A network of more than 1.200 non-governmental organizations in 60 countries, working for a global ban on landmines. In June 1998, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines established Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, a unique and civil society-based reporting network to systematically monitor and document compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the humanitarian response to the global landmine crisis
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's (KEDO) - Funded through financial support from member and contributing countries, KEDO was created in 1995 to advance the implementation of the Agreed Framework between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), under which the DPRK agreed to freeze and ultimately dismantle its existing nuclear program. In return, KEDO is providing the DPRK with alternative sources of energy in the form of heavy fuel oil and a modern nuclear power plant that will be built, operated, and regulated in accordance with international standards of safety.
Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty) - Treaty between the U.S. and the USSR on the limitation of anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM Treaty). Signed at Moscow: May 26, 1972. Ratification advised by U.S. Senate: August 3, 1972. Ratified by U.S. President: September 30, 1972. Proclaimed by U.S. President: October 3, 1972. Instruments of ratification exchanged: October 3, 1972. Entered into force: October 3, 1972.
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972 and 1996 Protocol Thereto - Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter. Dumping at sea of waste generated on land and loaded on board specialized dumping vessels had been carried out for several years by industrialized countries before international rules to prevent marine pollution from this practice entered into force in 1974: the Oslo Convention for the North-East Atlantic and in 1975 the London Convention 1972 for marine waters worldwide other than the internal waters of States.
Los Alamos Study Group - A nuclear disarmament organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mine Ban Treaty - Convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction, 18 September 1997.
Montreal Protocol - An international agreement designed to protect the stratospheric ozone layer. The treaty was originally signed in 1987 and substantially amended in 1990 and 1992. The Montreal Protocol stipulates that the production and consumption of compounds that deplete ozone in the stratosphere - chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform - are to be phased out by 2000 (2005 for methyl chloroform).
Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer - The Protocol is constructively flexible: it can be tightened or "adjusted" as the scientific evidence strengthens, without having to be completely renegotiated. Indeed, it sets the "elimination" of ozone-depleting substances as its "final objective." The Protocol came into force, on time, on January 1st, 1989, when 29 countries and the EEC (representing approximately 82 percent of world consumption) had ratified it.
Multilaterals Project - An ongoing project at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. Although initiated to improve public access to environmental agreements, the collection today also includes treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas, including:
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) - Official site. The Missile Technology Control Regime is an informal and voluntary association of countries which share the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction, and which seek to coordinate national export licensing efforts aimed at preventing their proliferation. The MTCR was formed in 1987 by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since that time, the MTCR has grown to include thirty-three countries, all of which have equal standing within the Regime.
National Security News Service - A nonprofit staffed by award-winning investigative reporters whose mission is to investigate previously overlooked news stories about significant issues—chief among them the environment and national security.
Nonproliferation - Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Provides technology, analysis, and expertise to aid the U.S. government in preventing the spread or use of weapons of mass destruction.
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) - Educates policymakers, journalists, and university professors about proliferation threats and possible new policies and measures to meet them.
Oxford Research Group (ORG) - Combines research into nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, UK security policy, and global security in the changing international environment, with an understanding of the people who make those decisions. Our areas of research include: preventing the further spread of nuclear weapons; control of the arms trade; constructive approaches to dealing with international terrorism and the 'war on terror'; and effective non-violent approaches to conflict prevention and resolution.
Peace Action - Peace Action (formerly SANE/FREEZE), its sister organization, Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF), the Student Peace Action Network (SPAN), and the International Office work through national and grassroots citizens' action to promote global nuclear disarmament, cut military spending, and end the international arms trade.
PeaceActionWest - Works to reduce the threat posed by nuclear weapons, end US arms sales to human rights-abusing governments, cut excessive military spending, and promote international cooperation.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) - Committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons and the reversal of the arms race and the national budgetary priorities that fuel that race.
PIR Center - Research and publishing projects in international security, arms control, and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Ploughshares Fund - A public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war, from nuclear arms to landmines.
Peace Action - Peace Action, the merger of SANE and The Freeze, has effectively mobilized for peace and disarmament for over forty years.
Peace and Progress - Working to establish a government of peace committed to disarmament and human rights.
Small Arms Survey (SAS) - The Swiss government, in conjunction with other interested governments, established the Small Arms Survey project in 1999. SAS is an annual review of global small arms issues which address topics such as products and producers, stockpiles, arms brokers, legal and illicit arms transfers, the effects of small arms, and national, bilateral, and multilateral measures to deal with the problems associated with small arms.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) - Information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, military expenditure, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament. Also see SIPRI Yearbook, a compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts, military spending and armaments, and non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.
Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) - The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970.
U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center - Counterproliferation research and education including nuclear, biological, chemical, and missile (NBC/M) proliferation threats and the means of addressing those threats. Also, Organizations and Resources links to additional resources.
U.S. State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) - Leads U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons) and their missile delivery systems; to secure nuclear materials in the states of the former Soviet Union; and to promote nuclear safety and the protection of nuclear materials worldwide.
UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) - Created through the adoption of Security Council resolution 1284 of 17 December 1999. UNMOVIC replaces the former UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and continues the latter's mandate to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological weapons and missiles with a range of more than 150 km), and to operate a system of ongoing monitoring and verification to check Iraq's compliance with its obligations not to reacquire the same weapons prohibited to it by the Security Council.
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