Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
NSG is a voluntary group of nuclear supplier countries that seeks to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons through controlling the export of nuclear, nuclear-related, and dual-use technologies and materials.
Zangger Committee
This informal committee, first formed in 1971, drafted a "trigger list" of fissile material and related equipment, which under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) should be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards if supplied by NPT parties to any non-nuclear-weapon States. The trigger list was first published in September 1974 as IAEA document INFCIRC/209 and has been amended several times since then.
The Australia Group
The Australia Group is an informal arrangement seeking to minimize the risk of chemical and biological weapon (CBW) proliferation by controlling the exports of CBW-related material and equipment. Its 34 participating countries meet annually to discuss ways in which national-level export licensing measures can be made more effective in preventing would-be proliferators from obtaining CBWs, which are banned under international law.
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Established in 1987, the MTCR is an informal political arrangement that seeks to control the proliferation of rocket and unmanned air vehicle systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction and their associated equipment and technology. Its members agree not to export specified equipment to countries of concern.
UN Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
The DDA is the United Nations body responsible for the international organization's work on disarmament-related security matters. It analyzes developments and trends of disarmament; seeks to support the review and implementation of disarmament agreements; and promotes transparency in military matters, verification, confidence-building measures, and regional approaches to disarmament.
UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
UNIDIR was established to promote research and study activity by the UN in the field of disarmament. This website links to UNIDIR publications, such as Disarmament Forum and Research Reports.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
This website contains information about the IAEA's dual purpose: to promote peaceful use of atomic energy and to administer safeguard activities to hinder the spread of nuclear weapons and related technology. There are also links to the IAEA's publications, press releases, official documents, and various nuclear-related documents.
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
The CTBTO was established in 1996 to prepare the entry into force of the CTBT. This website includes the current status of signatures and ratifications, information on the verification regime, and so on.
Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
This website contains the executive summary and full text of the report, history, and related information on this high-level commission formed by the Australian government to study the elimination of nuclear weapons.
U.S. Department of State
In 1999, the U.S. Department of State absorbed the duties of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The resulting bureaus for arms control and international security are under the oversight of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, who also serves as Senior Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State on Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament.
Bureau of Arms Control
The Bureau of Arms Control is responsible for international agreements on conventional, chemical/biological, and strategic forces; treaty verification and compliance; and supporting ongoing negotiations, policy-making, and interagency implementation efforts.
Bureau of Nonproliferation
The Nonproliferation Bureau leads U.S. efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) 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. It also leads U.S. efforts to promote responsibility, transparency, and restraint in international transfers of conventional arms and sensitive dual-use technology.
Bureau of Verification and Compliance
This bureau is responsible within the State Department for the overall supervision (including oversight of both policy and resources) of all matters relating to verification and compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments.
Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF)
The NDF supplements U.S. diplomatic efforts to halt the spread of WMD, limit the spread of advanced conventional weapons, their delivery systems, and related technology, and enable the dismantling of existing weapons and their means of delivery. The NDF is part of the Bureau of Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State.
Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
This office within the recently created National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) seeks to promote nuclear nonproliferation, reduce global danger from WMD, advance international nuclear safeguards and eliminate inventories of surplus fissile materials usable for nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI)
The NCI is aimed at enhancing U.S. and global security by supporting weapons complex reduction in Russian nuclear cities. NCI seeks to remove functions and equipment from the weapons complex; reduce the physical footprint; and create sustainable, alternative non-weapons work within a functioning city economy.
Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP)
The IPP Program is a cooperative program designed to cooperatively engage former Soviet weapons scientists, engineers, and technicians currently or formerly involved with WMD (or underlying technologies) on non-weapons related projects. It also seeks to identify and create non-military commercial opportunities for former Soviet WMD-related technologies.
U.S. Office of Fissile Materials Disposition
Responsible for all activities of the NNSA relating to the management, storage, and disposition of fissile materials from weapons and weapon systems that are excess to the national security needs of the United States. The Office also provides technical support for administration efforts to obtain reciprocal disposition of Russia's surplus plutonium.
Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research & Engineering Program
This is the homepage of the CTBT Research and Development (R&D) Program, which the DOE established during CTBT negotiations to develop technologies for verifying the test ban. This site provides access to data, products, and other information, especially reports, regarding the program's effort to develop technologies and analysis algorithms for monitoring the CTBT. Includes general overviews of each kind of monitoring technology (seismic, hydroacoustic, and so forth), with more detailed reports available by mail (a few available in electronic format at the site). Research and information also covers technology to be used in on-site inspections.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nonproliferation, Arms Control and International Security (NAI)
NAI provides technology, analysis, and expertise to aid the U.S. government in preventing the spread of or use of WMD. Pushing the scientific frontiers, NAI tries to solve treaty monitoring, nonproliferation and counterterrorism challenges that others regard as too difficult. NAI also innovates and adapts existing technologies to meet near-term needs.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapon and energy information resources (documents, technical information, links).
Department of Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration (BXA)
The BXA's activities include regulating the export of sensitive goods and technologies; enforcing export control and public safety laws; cooperating with and assisting other countries on export control and strategic trade issues; assisting U.S. industry to comply with international arms control agreements; monitoring the viability of the U.S. defense industrial base; and promoting federal initiatives and public-private partnerships across industry sectors to protect the nation's infrastructures.
Department of Defense
Nonproliferation and Arms Control (NPAC)Technology Working Group (TWG)
The NPAC TWG was created by Presidential Directive as the mechanism to coordinate the R&D response to challenges in arms control and nonproliferation while operating within constrained funding guidelines.
The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
The CTR Program was created in 1991 by Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) and former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) to assist the former Soviet republics in the dismantlement of nuclear weapons and delivery systems. The CTR website contains descriptions of and justifications for all CTR projects in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
