Curated playlist
Treaties of Czechoslovakia
- Covenant of the League of NationsEleven of nineteen delegates backed an equality motion for the League Covenant, but Wilson overruled it.
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe United States signed a human rights treaty in 1979 and never ratified it. It covers work, health and education.
- Montreal ProtocolThe Montreal Protocol is the only UN treaty ratified by all 198 parties. It phased out spray-can chemicals.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsA UN human rights treaty adopted in 1966 took nearly ten years to take effect.
- Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons has no way to check whether states obey it.
- Outer Space TreatyNo country can claim the Moon, Mars or any asteroid under the Outer Space Treaty. Rivals signed it in 1967.
- Locarno TreatiesIn 1936, German troops entered the Rhineland and no Locarno Treaties signatory moved to stop them.
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsNorth Korea became the first state ever to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in April 2003. It had joined in 1985.
- Antarctic Treaty SystemTwelve rival nations signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, the first arms control deal of the Cold War.
- Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied PowersItaly's 1947 peace treaty ordered all its submarines scuttled. It also banned new battleships and aircraft carriers.
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyIn 1957, underground nuclear tests could not be told apart from earthquakes. That complicated a full test ban.