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Prime Sources:

• Multilaterals Projects: Rules of Warfare / Arms Control
• Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues- (United Nations Office at Geneva)

Further Resources:

• International Atomic Energy Agency Conventions and Agreements under IAEA auspices.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)  Basic Texts.
• UN Conference on Disarmament  Major international instruments on disarmament and related issues (full text of treaties). 
• U. S.  State Department:
• Bureau of Arms Control 
• Bureau of Nonproliferation 
• Bureau of Verification and Compliance

Agreements:

• Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field. Prepared by Francis  Lieber (The Lieber Code) (1863) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (I) for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (29 Jul 1899) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land (29 Jul 1899) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (II) for  the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (III) Relative to the Opening of Hostilities (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (IV)  Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (Multilaterals Project)
  (18 Oct 1907)
• Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (VI)  Relating to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (VII) Relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (VIII)  Relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (IX)  Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (X) for the Adaption to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention (18 Oct 07) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention (XI)  Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War (18 Oct 1907)
• Convention (XIII)  Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War (18 Oct 1907) (Multilaterals Project)
• Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and  of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (17 Jun 1925) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention on the  Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (9 Dec 1948) (Multilaterals Project)
• Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in  the Field. (12  Aug 1949) (Multilaterals Project)
• Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members  of Armed Forces at Sea (12 Aug 1949) (Multilaterals Project)
• Geneva Convention  (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (12 Aug 1949) (Multilaterals Project)
• Geneva Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (12 Aug 1949)
• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (14 May 1954). (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (5 Aug 1963) (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty on the  Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1 Jul 1968) (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty on the  Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass  Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (11 February 1971) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological)  and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (10 Apr 1972) (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the  Limitation of Anti-ballistic Missile Systems (26 May 1972); and Protocol of  3 July 1974.  (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention on the  Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (10 Dec 1976) (Multilaterals Project)
• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims  of international armed conflict (Protocol I) (8 Jun 1977) (Multilaterals Project)
• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims  of non-international armed conflict (Protocol II) (8 Jun 1977) (Multilaterals Project)
• Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects (10 Oct 1980)  (Multilaterals Project)
• South Pacific Nuclear  Free Zone Treaty (6 Aug 1985)  (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe   (19 Nov 1990)  (Multilaterals Project)
• Treaty on  Open Skies;   (24 Mar 1992). (U.S. Department of State)
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (13 Jan 1993). (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW))
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (10 Sept 1996). (UN Centre for Disarmamant Affairs)
• United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (12 Jan 1998) (Multilaterals Project)

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