Non Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
Nuclear Disarmament
Under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the parties to the Treaty undertook to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament. The Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (signed in May 2002) commits the United States and Russia to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads by nearly two thirds to a level of between 1,700 and 2,200 by December 31 2012.