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Arms control / Non-proliferation / Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Acronym Institute: an independent, not-for-profit research and advocacy organisation working on disarmament, arms control and security issues.
- Arms Control Association
- Arms Control Reporter: Comprehensive arms control and non-proliferation journal presents all the nuclear and other weapon negotiations and treaties in easy to understand form, with added detail for expert users.
- Arms Control Today: Published by the Arms Control Association (ACA), Washington DC.
- Arms control treaties texts: From the Bureau of Arms Control, this comprehensive treaty database lists the full-text of some 57 treaties dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear test-bans, anti-ballistic missiles, non-proliferation and the SALT treaties.
- Army Technology: The website for defence industries and armies
- Bonn International Center for Conversion: An independent non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the transfer of former military resources and assets to alternative civilian purposes
- British American Security Information Council: BASIC is an independent research organization that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate.
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Published by the not-for-profit Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science
- Bureau of Arms Control, U.S.Department of State: Responsible for international agreements on conventional, chemical/biological, and strategic forces, treaty verification and compliance, and supporting ongoing negotiations, policy-making, and interagency implementation efforts.
- Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Russia
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Relations: CNS strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis.
- Chemical and Biological Information Analysis Center: The CBIAC generates, acquires, processes, analyzes, and disseminates CB Science and Technology Information (STI) in support of the CINCs, warfighters, the Reserve Components, the CB Defense Research, Development, and Acquisition community, and other federal, state, and local government agencies. The CBIAC helps the DoD and these other agencies meet their demanding technological needs and implement high-priority Research and Development (R&D) initiatives through the prompt and expert application of existing scientific and technical information
- Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation and Response Project: The project initially centered on preparations at home and abroad to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention and to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. In addition to the utility of international treaties as threat control and reduction mechanisms, the project's research reports have also addressed topics including weapons destruction technologies, the utility of export controls, terrorism involving chemical and biological weapons, and the status of chemical and biological weapons programs in various countries.
- Council for a Livable World: The Council provides U.S. senators with technical and scientific information that helps them make decisions about nuclear arms control, strategic and conventional weapons, the military budget and United Nations peacekeeping.
- Defense Technical Information Center: A key element of the DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program, DTIC is the central Department of Defense facility for providing access to and facilitating the exchange of scientific and technical information.
- Disarmament Diplomacy: Free on-line journal from the Acronym Institute.
- Documents on Rules of Warfare and Arms Control, Multilaterals project, Fletcher University
- EU Mine Action
- Federation of American Scientists: Conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, education technology, information technology, energy and the environment.
- Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining: The Geneva Centre supports Humanitarian Mine Action through research, operational assistance and contributions to the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty. It is an independent Foundation supported by 18 governments.
- Human Rights Watch Arms Division
- International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Data Centre
- Information Management System for Mine Action
- Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies: An independent monitor of international arms control and weapon holdings and transfers.
- Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare: Purpose of the IASIW is to facilitate an understanding of information warfare with reference to both military and civilian life.
- Institute for Science and International Security: A non-profit, non-partisan institution dedicated to informing the public about science and policy issues affecting international security. Its efforts focus on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, bringing about greater transparency of nuclear activities worldwide, and achieving deep reductions in nuclear arsenals. ISIS's projects integrate technical, scientific, and policy research in order to build a sound foundation for a wide variety of efforts to reduce the threat posed by nuclear weapons to U.S. and international security.
- International Action Network on Small Arms
- International Campaign to ban Landmines
- International Science and Technology Center: Promotes nonproliferation through science cooperation.
- Mine Action Information Center at James Madison University
- New Nuclear Directions Dialogue, Henry L. Stimson Center
- NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security: With many useful links.
- Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- Peace and Security world wide web metapage
- Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO PrepCom), Vienna
- Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-proliferation
- Project on Military Technology SIPRI
- Proliferation News and Resources Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
- Small Arms Survey: Project established on the intitiative of the Swiss Government and located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Main objectives are dissemination of impartial information on small arms and light weapons (clearinghouse function), monitoring of national and international policies on small arms, networking (researchers, NGOs).
- STAR Site: Strategic Arms Reductions Problems, events, analysis of the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
- United Nations and Disarmament
- United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
- United Nations Mine Action Service