Fact Sheets & Briefs

Country Profiles

• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: The United States
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: The United Kingdom
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Russia
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2009
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Pakistan
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007; This profile summarizes the major arms control agreements, regimes, initiatives, and practices that Pakistan subscribes to and those that it does not. It also describes the major weapons programs, policies, and holdings of Pakistan, as well as its proliferation record. (Continue)
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: North Korea
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2008
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Israel
  
  

  Fact Sheet, November 2007

  
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Iran
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2008
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: India
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: France
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
  
  
• Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: China
  
  November 2007
  
  
• Chronology of Bush Administration Claim that Iraq Attempted to Obtain Uranium from Niger (2001-2003)
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2005
  
  
• Disarming Saddam-A Chronology of Iraq and UN Weapons Inspections From 2002-2003
  
  Fact Sheet, July 2003
  
  

Chemical/Biological Arms Control

• The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) At A Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, July 2008
  
  
• Chemical Weapons Convention Signatories and States-Parties
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2008
  
  
• The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2008
  
  
• The Australia Group at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
  
  
• The 2006 Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference Reader
  
  Fact Sheet, November 2006
  
  
• A Briefing Paper on the Status of Biological Weapons Nonproliferation
  
  Brief, May 2003
  
  
• Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2002
  
  

Conventional Arms Issues

• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009
  
  Fact Sheet, March 2010
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008
  
  Fact Sheet, March 2009
  
  
• The Ottawa Convention: Signatories and States-Parties
  
  Fact Sheet, June 2008
  
  
• The Ottawa Convention at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, June 2008
  
  
• The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, February 2008
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007
  
  Fact Sheet, February 2008
  
  
• Cluster Munitions at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, February 2008
  
  
• The Open Skies Treaty at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2007
  
  
• MANPADS at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2007
  
  
• The Adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2007
  
  
• Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2007
  
  
• The Wassenaar Arrangement at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2007
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006
  
  Fact Sheet, August 2007
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005
  
  Fact Sheet, August 2006
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2005
  
  
• U.S. Conventional Arms Sales to Taiwan
  
  Fact Sheet, June 2004
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003
  
  Fact Sheet, April 2004
  
  
• The Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, June 2003
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2003
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2002
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2000
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2001
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements Reported to Congress from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2000
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements Notified to Congress from January 1, 1998 to December 31, 1998
  
  Fact Sheet, January 1999
  
  
• Proposed U.S. Arms Export Agreements From January 1, 1997 to December 31, 1997
  
  Fact Sheet, January 1998
  
  

Nuclear Testing

• The Status of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Signatories and Ratifiers
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2010
  
  
• The Nuclear Testing Tally
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2009
  
  

Nuclear/Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation

• Iran’s Outstanding Nuclear Issues at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, July 2009

  
  
  
• Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy
  
  

  For years, the United States and the international community have tried to negotiate an end to North Korea’s nuclear and missile development and its export of ballistic missile technology. Those efforts have been replete with periods of crisis, stalemate, and tentative progress towards denuclearization, and North Korea has long been a key challenge for the global nuclear nonproliferation regime. (Continue)

  
  
  
• Chronology of Libya's Disarmament and Relations with the United States
  
  

  Fact Sheet, May 2008: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a report Sept. 12 indicating that Libya did not provide a full picture of its past nuclear fuel cycle procurement efforts following its renunciation of nonconventional weapons in December 2003. The omissions, however, did not point to any attempt to maintain a weapons-related capability and were only important for uncovering the timeline of Libya’s contacts with the nuclear smuggling network led by Pakistani nuclear official Abdul Qadeer Khan and other avenues Tripoli pursued to obtain nuclear weapons. (Continue)

  
  
  
• The 1997 IAEA Additional Protocol At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2008
  
  
• Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZ) At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, December 2009
  
  
• The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2007
  
  
• Worldwide Ballistic Missile Inventories
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2007
  
  
• History of Official Proposals on the Iranian Nuclear Issue
  
  Fact Sheet, October 2009
  
  
• Security Council Resolution 1696 Calling on Iran to Suspend Uranium Enrichment
  
  Brief, August 2006
  
  
• The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, July 2009
  
  
• Questions Surround Iran’s Nuclear Program
  
  Brief, March 2006
  
  
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, April 2005
  
  
• The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, September 2004

  
  
  
• The U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, August 2004
  
  
• Missile Proliferation in South Asia: India and Pakistan's Ballistic Missile Inventories
  
  Fact Sheet, May 2002
  
  
• U.S. Implementation of the "13 Practical Steps on Nonproliferation and Disarmament" Agreed to at the 2000 NPT Review Conference
  
  Fact Sheet, April 2002
  
  

Missile Defense

• U.S. Missile Defense Programs at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2009
  
  
• The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2003
  
  

Strategic Arms Control and Policy

• 1999 CTBT Safeguards
  
  The six safeguards proposed by President Clinton to assuage skeptics during the 1999 Senate ratification debate.
  
  
• U.S.-Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arms Control Agreements at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, December 2009
  
  
• The Lisbon Protocol At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, July 2008
  
  
• The Outer Space Treaty at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, April 2008

  
  
  
• Current Strategic Nuclear Forces of the Former Soviet Union
  
  

  Fact Sheet, April 2009

  
  
  
• Current U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces
  
  

  Fact Sheet, April 2009

  
  
  
• The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, February 2008
  
  
• U.S. "Negative Security Assurances" At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2008
  
  
• Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2009
  
  
• The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, September 2006
  
  
• The Presidential Nuclear Initiatives (PNIs) on Tactical Nuclear Weapons At a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, March 2006
  
  
• New Nuclear Policies, New Weapons, New Dangers
  
  Fact Sheet, April 2003
  
  
• Brief Chronology of START II
  
  

  Brief, March 2003

  
  
  
• The 1997 START/ABM Package at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, January 2003

  
  
  
• The START III Framework at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, January 2003

  
  
  
• START II and Its Extension Protocol at a Glance
  
  

  Fact Sheet, January 2003

  
  
  
• START I at a Glance
  
  Fact Sheet, January 2009
  
  

• Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Modernization Programs
  
  

  Fact sheet, January 2010