Reference materials

The documents on this page are included for reference purposes only. Their inclusion should in no way be taken to imply approval or endorsement by the Commission of their contents

Commission reports

• Eliminating Nuclear Threats - A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers

Treaties

• Statute of the IAEA 1956
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) 1968
• Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 1980
• Convention on Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency 1986
• Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident 1987
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) 1987
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I (START 1) 1991
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) 1993
• The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) 1996
• Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) 2002
• Amendment to Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 2005
• International Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism 2005

Reports

• Report of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 1996
• Facing Nuclear Dangers: An Action Plan for the 21^st Century, Report of the Tokyo Forum for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, 25 July 1999
• Weapons of Terror, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Report, 2006
• 20/20 Vision for the Future, Background Report by the Director-General for the Commission of Eminent Persons, February 2008  
• Report of the Commission of Eminent Persons Group on the Future of the Agency, IAEA GOV/2008/22-GC(52)/INF/4, 23 May 2008

NPT RevCon documents

• Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I), Annex, Decision 2
• Resolution on the Middle East, NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I), Annex
• The Thirteen Steps — Final Document of the 2000 NPT RevCon Volume I NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts 1 and II), para 15, p.14

Official documents

• “Declaration by the Seven Foreign Ministers”, The Seven-Nation Initiative on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, July 2005.  See also Op-Ed by the Foreign Ministers.
• U.S.–Russia Strategic Framework Declaration, Joint Pledge signed at the Sochi Summit, 5 April 2008 by Presidents Bush and Putin
• G-8 Hokkaido Summit 2008 statement on Non-Proliferation
• ICNND Background Brief - September 2009

Other documents

• Additional Document 1 - Update of ICNND Survey of Nuclear Industry (PDF)
• A New European Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (Attachment 2) (PDF)
• A New European Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (Attachment 3) (PDF)
• UNSCR 1540, 28 April 2004
• A Cut-Off of Production of Weapon-Usable Fissionable Material: Considerations, Requirements and IAEA Capabilities, statement by the Head, IAEA Verification & Security Policy Coordination, at the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, 24 August 2006.
• Draft FMCT text submitted by the United States to the Conference on Disarmament, 2006.
• “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons”, George P. Schultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, The Wall Street Journal, 4 January 2007.
• “Toward a Nuclear-Free World”, George P. Schultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, The Wall Street Journal, 15 January 2008.
• NPT Briefing Book, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 2008.
• Global Nuclear Governance: Safety, Security and Nonproliferation, CIGI Nuclear Energy Futures Special Publication, September 2008. Contains a comprehensive guide to the international treaties, organizations, initiatives and networks that form the global regime dealing with nuclear non-proliferation, safety and security.

Global score cards

• The UN Disarmament Yearbook, Vol. 32 (Part I): 2007. For Yearbooks 2002 – 2006 see http://disarmament.un.org/e-yearbook.html
• Fissile Facts, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 15 December 2005.
• The Global Fissile Material Report 2007, International Panel on Fissile Materials,9 October 2007. .
• Year End Nuclear Progress Report, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 6 December 2005.