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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Arms control

Military; Arms control

An umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.

Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty

Military; Arms control

Multilateral treaty originally signed by the 22 North Atlantic Treaty organisation 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

Conventional Armaments and Equipment Subject to the Treaty

Military; Arms control

As defined in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft, primary trainer aircraft, unarmed trainer aircraft, combat ...

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 ...

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 programme in ...

Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR)

Military; Arms control

United States programme 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 ...