
Past Event
Latin America Regional Workshop on Strengthening the NPT Regime: Priorities for the 2020 NPT RevCon
Country Spotlight
Although it once engaged in nuclear competition with Argentina, Brazil renounced its interest in nuclear weapons and curtailed ballistic missile development after the ouster of its military government in the 1990s. The country currently operates an extensive civil nuclear program and is constructing a nuclear-powered submarine. It has never developed chemical or biological weapons.
Region South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
1967 Signed Treaty of Tlatelolco, joining the Latin America Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone
1991 Agreed to binational nuclear safeguards with Argentina
1 Nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) under development
Past Event
Education Center
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