NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATIES
BY LUBNA YASMIN
What’s going on in the 1940s?
1. US TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB
July 16, 1945 Trinity
HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI
August 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki
UNAEC
24 January1946
BARUCH PLAN OF 1946
THE START OF THE COLD WAR
2. SOVIET UNION TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB
August 29 1949 RDS-1
What’s going on in the 1950s?
3. UK TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB
October 3 1952 “Hurricane”
EURATOM
March 25 1957 Signed in Rome Enters into force in January 1, 1968
IAEA
July 29 1957
ANTARCTIC TREATY
December 1 1959 Washington
What’s going on in the 1960’s?
4. FRANCE TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB
February 13 1960 Gerboise Bleue
PARTIAL TEST-BAN TREATY
August 5 1963
5. CHINA TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB
October 16 1964 “596”
DRAFT NPT
17 August 1965 The United States
submits draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
US & SOVIET AGREEMENT
August 24 1967 US and SU submit
separate but identical texts of draft Treaty to the ENDC
OUTER SPACE TREATY
January 27 1967
TREATY OF TLATELOLCO
February 14 1967
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
1 July 1968 Open for signature in
London, Moscow and Washington
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
March 5 1970 The NPT enters
into force.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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