Disarmament

Issues

Environmental Affairs

Certain disarmament treaties have a specific relevance to environmental affairs, for example:

• The Antarctic Treaty of 1 December 1959.
• The Sea-Bed Treaty (banning the emplacement of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on and in the ocean floor) of 11 December 1971.
• The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) of 18 May 1977, prohibiting military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.

References

Iceland and the Arctic, The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, April 2009.

Links

Antarctic   |   ENMOD   |   Sea-Bed

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