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Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)

  • South Korea Extends Missile Range
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    South Korea and the United States reached an agreement allowing Seoul to extend the range of its ballistic missiles. Both countries say the increase is necessary to counter the threat posed by North Korea’s missile capabilities.
  • The Missile Technology Control Regime at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    August 17, 2012

    August 2012
  • Missile Control: An Interview With Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State Vann Van Diepen
    Interviews
    July 5, 2012

    Vann Van Diepen has been principal deputy assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation since June 2009. He has worked for 30 years on issues relating to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and their delivery systems. For more than 14 years, he directed the Department of State’s Office of Chemical, Biological and Missile Nonproliferation.
  • Long-Range Ballistic Missile Development: A Tale of Two Tests
    Threat Assessment Brief
    May 10, 2012

    North Korea's failed attempt to launch a satellite from its Unha-3 space rocket on April 13 and India's successful flight test of the Agni-5 long-range missile on April 19 marked significant events in the ballistic missile development programs of the two countries. These two ballistic missile test events not only reveal technical information about system performance, but also invite reflection on U.S. policy responses.
  • Stemming the Spread of Missiles: Hits, Misses, and Hard Cases
    Arms Control Today
    April 3, 2012

    Twenty-five years after it was publicly announced on April 16, 1987, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) has overcome uncertainty and hostility to become a major force in global nonproliferation. Supported by the 2002 Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation and the 2003 Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), it is the principal mechanism of the international regime against the spread of long-range ballistic and cruise missiles and their technology.
  • Missile Nonproliferation and Missile Defense: Fitting Them Together
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007

    Missile nonproliferation and missile defense are directed against the same threats. Each seeks to prevent damage from proliferators’ missiles, one by acting before launch and the other after launch.[1] For good reason, the United States has been pursuing both approaches. Nonetheless, in practice there are gaps and potential conflicts between nonproliferation and defense strategies. (Continue)
  • Editor's Note
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007

    Few would disagree that if Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, it would represent an extraordinarily destabilizing development in an already shaky region. So how close is Iran to obtaining such arms, and what can be done to prevent it from doing so? (Continue)
  • Details Bedevil Libyan Grand Bargain
    Arms Control Today
    October 1, 2007

    Almost four years after Libya first announced it would surrender its chemical and nuclear weapons programs in exchange for normalization of relations with the West, some weapons and materials officially renounced by Libya remain in the country, and Libyan frustration over “unmet promises” is growing. (Continue)
  • LOOKING BACK: The Missile Technology Control Regime
    Arms Control Today
    April 2, 2007

    On April 16, 1987, the world's seven most industrialized nations (Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany) established the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Constructed in the waning days of the Cold War, the export control regime was aimed primarily at curtailing the spread of missiles cabable of delivering nuclear weapons. (Continue)
  • Missile Control Regime Focuses on Iran, NK
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2006

    A group of countries devoted to stemming the spread of missiles vowed recently to intensify efforts to deny Iran and North Korea exports that could aid their missile programs. China’s alleged failure to curtail such exports to Iran is a key factor frustrating Beijing’s campaign to join the group. (Continue)