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"I salute the Arms Control Association … for its keen vision of the goals ahead and for its many efforts to identify and to promote practical measures that are so vitally needed to achieve them."

– Amb. Nobuyasu Abe

Former UN Undersecretary General for Disarmament Affairs

January 28, 2004

South Pacific

Resources for Journalists

September 21, 2020
U.S. and Allied Ballistic Missile Defenses in the Asia-Pacific Region

January 14, 2019

January 2019
Week Ahead Feb. 24-March 2: Castle Bravo Test Anniversary; Pentagon Budget; NATO Ministers & G8 Partnership Meetings

February 23, 2014
International Day Against Nuclear Tests: Translating Words Into Action

August 28, 2011
NWFZ Protocols Submitted to Senate

May 3, 2011
Ratifying the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Protocols

February 18, 2011
Asian and Pacific Leaders Pledge to Control Shoulder-Fired Missiles

November 1, 2003
South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga)

August 6, 1985

This prohibits the manufacture, possession, or control of nuclear explosives, the dumping of radioactive wastes at sea within the defined zone, and the testing or stationing nuclear explosive devices within state territories.