Arms control

This map layer shows the states parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction. The Convention was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in 1997. Every state that ratified the CWC undertook to declare any stockpiles and relevant munitions and production equipment and for production and destroy them by the end of 2012. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague supervises this process. By 2018, 193 countries had ratified the Convention.

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Members of each ABC / NBC weapons agreement 2018

The graph shows the number of members of each NBC arms control agreement (early 2018).

Sources: UNODA 2018, OPCW 2018, CTBTO 2018

C-Waffen-Verbot, Nichtverbreitung und C-Waffen-Abrüstung

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Chemical Weapons-Ban, Nonproliferation and Disarmament

Chemical weapons were the first weapons of mass destruction. Despite countless victims, their use was never decisive for the outcome of a war. We have repeatedly seen cases in which the attacking side itself suffers the long-term consequences, such as US veterans of the Vietnam War.

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