Arms control

Arms control

The international restrictions on the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is usually exercised through international treaties and agreements that impose arms limitations among consenting parties.

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Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty

Military; Arms control

Multilateral treaty originally signed by the 22 North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact nations November 19, 1990; entered into force November 9, 1992. Establishes equal East-West limits ...

treaty on conventional armed forces in europe

Military; Arms control

Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR)

Military; Arms control

United States program established in 1991 to provide assistance to eligible states of the former Soviet Union in order to dismantle weapons of mass destruction and to reduce the threat of ...

countermeasures (CM)

Military; Arms control

Under arms control treaties, employment of devices, techniques, or both to protect national security, proprietary, or other critical information while fulfilling State Party treaty obligations.

critical information

Military; Arms control

In the context of arms control inspections, information that is intrinsically harmful if obtained by an inspector’s nation and that would likely result in undermining the objectives of a program in ...

danger area

Military; Arms control

Under the Open Skies Treaty, an airspace of defined dimensions, within which activities dangerous to the flight of aircraft may exist at specified times. This is one of the three types of areas that ...