Nuclear disarmament can be achieved through the pursuit of both comprehensive agendas for total disarmament and through incremental measures such as the establishment of nuclear weapon free zones (NWFZ).

Nuclear disarmament can be achieved through the pursuit of both comprehensive agendas for total disarmament and through incremental measures such as the establishment of nuclear weapon free zones (NWFZ).

Such zones ban the manufacture, deployment or transportation of nuclear weapons within countries party to the zone. Nuclear weapon states sign on to the zone treaty and agree not to target such zones with nuclear weapons. The whole of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia are already official NWFZs.

While TNI proposes simultaneous strategies, the Institute promoted the concept of nuclear weapon free zones (NWFZs) as one contribution to the global movement for nuclear disarmament, through Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Project, launched at a seminar in Uppsala, Sweden in 2000.

This page was made as a resource page for the project.

Existing Nuclear Weapon-free Zones

Documents

• Nuclear Weapons Free Zones. Crucial Steps toward a Nuclear-free World Concept Paper for the Uppsala 2000 seminar
• B. v.d. Sijde Nuclear Weapons Free Zones in 1998
• Hiromichi Umebayashi Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, A Perspective from Japan INES Conference, Stockholm, 14-18 June 2000
• John E. Endicott A limited Nuclear-Weapons Free Zone in Northeast Asia: A Track-II Initiative Disarmament Diplomacy 35, 1999
• Fawzy Hussein Hammad Establishment of a Regional Monitoring and Verification System for a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Preliminary Report, INESAP Conference, 8-10 September 1997
• Hiromichi Umebayashi Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: From Security by US Forces to Non-Military Cooperative Security by People ASEM 2000 People's Forum, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 October 2000