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Arms control treaties

  • START IIGeorge H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin met in Moscow on the 3rd of January 1993 to sign a historic agreement. This event marked the official start of the START…
  • Outer Space TreatyThe Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature on the 27th of January 1967, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union all signing on…
  • START ISTART I, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was signed on the 31st of July 1991 by the leaders of two nations that had spent four decades pointing tens of…
  • Strategic Arms Limitation TalksThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in Helsinki in November 1969, at a moment when the United States already held 1,054 intercontinental ballistic…
  • Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades.
  • Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
  • Anglo-German Naval AgreementPart V of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed severe limitations on Germany's naval forces. The treaty allowed no submarines, no naval aviation, and only…
  • New STARTNew START, signed on the 8th of April 2010 in Prague, was the most significant nuclear arms reduction agreement between the United States and Russia in a…
  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsThe Non-Proliferation Treaty, known almost universally as the NPT, opened for signature in 1968 with a single overriding fear driving its creation: that…
  • Treaty of VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th of June 1919, exactly five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the event…
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ended, formally, on the 4th of August 2025, when Russia announced it would no longer abide by its terms.
  • Antarctic Treaty SystemThe Antarctic Treaty System governs an entire continent where no human being has ever been born. On the 1st of December 1959, twelve nations signed an…
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyOn the 5th of August 1963, three governments gathered in Moscow to sign a document that had taken nearly two decades of argument, scientific dispute, and…