Status of Nuclear Weapons Treaties

U.S. Withdrawal
Open Skies treaty.
Intermediate-range missile treaty
Anti-ballistic missile treaty

U.S. Not ratified

Nuclear-weapons free zone in Central Asia
Nuclear-weapons free zone in Latin America
Nuclear-weapons free zone in South-east Asia
Nuclear-weapons free zone in Africa
Missile data sharing
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

Going forward

The United States is urging countries that have ratified a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force, which supporters say could happen this week. The U.S. letter to signatories, obtained by The Associated Press, says the five original nuclear powers — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — and America's NATO allies "stand unified in our opposition to the potential repercussions" of the treaty.

It says the treaty "turns back the clock on verification and disarmament and is dangerous" to the half-century-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the cornerstone of global nonproliferation efforts.

"Although we recognize your sovereign right to ratify or accede to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we believe that you have made a strategic error and should withdraw your instrument of ratification or accession," the letter says.

Related treaties U.S. never signed
Arms Trade Treaty
Convention on cluster munitions
Anti-personnel mine ban

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janis b's picture

https://www.icanw.org

On 7 July 2017 – following a decade of advocacy by ICAN and its partners – an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons, known officially as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It entered into force on 22 January 2021.

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usefewersyllables's picture

remains in effect: the Golden Treaty.

"Use 'em or lose 'em"...

Been waiting for a long time. Won't be much longer now.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

dystopian's picture

Well... ya see... the U.S. of Greatest A. has a hard time with treaties.

Now let's do U.S. treaties with native Americans. Have any been kept?

This is why those peskie Ruskies have that phrase that means 'not agreement capable' about the U.S. of A. Not about anyone else it seems, just the U.S., which is not agreement capable.

If you look carefully, I think you will see they do not do what they say they are.

When money is your god, other types of pieces of paper hardly matter, like a treaty, or that damned old piece of paper, The Constitution.

be well all!

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Cassiodorus's picture

"We've had enough and so here is a plan to nuke all of Russia's major cities. What do you think, Joe?"

Joe: (crickets)

Joe's caregiver: "Look, I'm just the caregiver here."

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