The Model Nuclear Inventory:
Accountability is Democracy, Transparency is Security
2007

Now available in HTML and PDF
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The Model Nuclear Inventory is a comprehensive database of all nuclear materials, both military and civilian, in the 44 States recognized as having a significant nuclear capability. Because the Inventory is designed to encourage better reporting in the context of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), only NPT states parties are included.

You can click on the individual chapters below in either PDF or HTML. Hard copies of the Model Nuclear Inventory are available to purchase for $10. Contact Reaching Critical Will to order your copy.

This five-year review cycle of the NPT offers the opportunity to rescue the regime, and governments are showing signs of seizing what may be one of their last chances to do so. At the time of this publication, members of both the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission are coming closer to agreement than they have in years. New non-traditional groupings of states are working together to make progress. In this cycle, there will be a change in the leadership of four out of the five nuclear weapon states, opening the possibility for movement with new negotiating partners.

In this context, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom would like to offer this Model Nuclear Inventory as another tool for both bridge-building and accountability. In it, we track the military and civilian nuclear weapons, materials, locations, and policies in the NPT states parties of the 44 states listed as having significant nuclear capabilities in Annex II of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Because it tracks the compliance of the nuclear weapon states with their disarmament obligations under Article VI of the NPT and the proliferation-sensitive activities and materials in non-nuclear weapon states, an Inventory is useful to all members of the NPT. As such, it is a possible area of agreement and collective action.

Moreover, an Inventory increases transparency, which is a tool for confidence-building and accountability. An extreme lack of trust pervades the disarmament arena, and transparent information exchange on nuclear programs can increase confidence among states honoring their obligations. It also offers an objective tool to hold those in non-compliance to account.

As we work to secure our common future, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom would like to highlight two points of this Inventory. First, reductions in nuclear weapons are a positive and appreciated step in the right direction, but we want the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Therefore, examining the role of nuclear weapons in national security and the state of planning for their elimination are fundamental to evaluating compliance with Article VI of the NPT, and perhaps more important than numeric reductions. Second, any nuclear energy program can evolve into a nuclear weapons program with a political decision. A completed nuclear fuel cycle greatly increases the speed and ability to make this switch if it is so decided. Therefore, examining the state of nuclear energy programs is fundamental to assessing proliferation risks, regardless of current political leadership.

See the 2005 MNI by clicking here.

Nuclear Weapon States

United States
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Russian Federation
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United Kingdom
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France
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China
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NATO States Hosting Nuclear Weapons

Belgium
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Germany
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Italy
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Netherlands
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Turkey
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Greece
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Non-Nuclear Weapon States

Algeria
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Argentina
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Australia
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Austria
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Bangladesh
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Brazil
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Bulgaria
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Canada
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Chile
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Colombia
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Czech Republic
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DPRK (North Korea)
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Democratic Republic of Congo
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Egypt
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Finland
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Hungary
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Indonesia
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Iran
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Japan
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Mexico
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Norway
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Peru
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Poland
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Republic of Korea
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Romania
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Slovak Republic
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Spain
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South Africa
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Ukraine
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Viet Nam
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