State profiles

The Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor prepares state profiles for each of the 197 states that can become party to the global treaties in the legal architecture for disarmament and non-proliferation of weapon of mass destruction. These are the 193 UN member states, the two UN observer states (the Holy See and the State of Palestine), and the two ‘other’ states (the Cook Islands and Niue). The state profiles are categorised according to each state’s position on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with separate sections for the Treaty’s states parties, signatories, other supporters, undecided states, and opposed states. The state profiles contain summary data on the status of the 197 states in relation to the TPNW as well as the other key treaties relating to weapons of mass destruction, specifically the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), nuclear-weapon-free-zone (NWFZ) treaties, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), Safeguards Agreements and Additional Protocols with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The state profiles also present an overview of each state’s compliance (for states parties and signatories) or compatibility (for non-parties) with the prohibitions of the TPNW in 2024. Finally, the state profiles contain information on the views they have expressed about nuclear disarmament in the course of the year, latest developments, TPNW voting and participation, and fissile material. The information is drawn from the report Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor 2024 and Norwegian People’s Aid’s Disarmament Treaty Database, which is a continuation of a database project first initiated in 2012 by the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI). In addition to data from the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor’s own analysis and research, the database brings together information from a wide range of open sources, including the UN Treaty Collection, the website of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the IAEA, the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), and Reaching Critical Will’s monitoring of disarmament forums.