Today there are five zones covering continental or subcontinental groups of countries (including their … See more

Four NWFZ countries have nuclear plants to generate electricity. South Africa formerly had a nuclear weapons program which it terminated in 1989.
Argentina and Brazil are known to operate uranium en… See more

Several of the NWFZ treaties have protocols under which states outside the zone that have territories within the zone can bring the provisions of the NWFZ into force for those territories. All these territories a… See more

Few prevailing winds cross the Equator and effects of nuclear explosions in the Northern Hemisphere might send less fallout to the Southern Hemisphere.
The five southern NWFZs together cover all land in the … See more

The Latin American, African, South Pacific and Southeast Asian zones also cover most land in the tropics, but not some Northern Hemisphere areas south of the Tropic of Cancer. Most tropical land outside of NWFZs i… See more

The majority of non-NWS non-NWFZ states are in Europe and the North Pacific and are members of (or surrounded by) collective security alliances with nuclear weapons states dating from the Cold War and predating t… See more

• Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
• Nuclear disarmament
• Prevention of nuclear catastrophe
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons… See more