Algeria
Algeria became a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1995 and has signed and ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). They are one of the 44 listed countries needed to sign and ratify for the CTBT to enter into force.
Algeria operates two nuclear reactors: one in the capital of Algiers, supplied by Argentina, and a second at Ain Oussera, supplied by the Chinese. It also has uranium deposits in the south-east. In the 1980's Algeria signed secret deals with Argentina and China to assist their nuclear programme and there were international concerns that Algeria was trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Algeria today, however, has signed and ratified the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (Treaty of Pelindaba).
Algeria was also the site of nuclear testing by France in the 1960's with four atmospheric tests and thirteen underground nuclear tests being conducted in the Sahara desert.
Read the profile on Algeria from the Model Nuclear Inventory (pdf), produced by the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
