State security as an element of the world community in the context of the international legal regulation of the circulation of weapons of mass destruction

The article brought to the attention of the reader examines the issues of legal regulation of the circulation of weapons of mass destruction in the context of ensuring the security of the state as an element of the world community. The relevance of the presented research, first of all, lies in the absence of international legal control over the non-proliferation of biological (bacteriological) weapons. This fact is of particular importance for ensuring the security of individual states and the world community as a whole against the background of the unknown nature of the origin of the coronavirus infection COVID-19.The article analyzes the current international legal framework that completely prohibits or restricts the circulation of existing types of weapons of mass destruction. Particular attention is paid to the role of individual states, global and regional international organizations and the world community as a whole in maintaining the nonproliferation regime. The authors conducted a study of the activities of the UN Security Council, special international organizations operating in the field of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international security organizations and other associations of states that do not have the status of international intergovernmental organizations. When summing up the results of the study, the authors made a number of conclusions regarding the systemic nature of the international legal framework for regulating the circulation of weapons of mass destruction, their essential nature for all international law. In addition, proposals were made on the object of security in this area of public relations and on the presence of certain trends in the development of the organizational and legal framework for regulating the issues of trafficking in weapons of mass destruction.