Feb 7-9 1990 [C] U.S. Secretary of State Baker and
Russian Foreign Minister Shevardnadze agree on a framework for action to expedite
the negotiations at the CD for a Chemical Weapons
Convention.
May 22 1990 [B] U.S. President Bush signs the Biological
Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, making it illegal for anyone in the United States
to develop or possess biological
weapons (BW).
June 1 1990 [N] The United States and Soviet Union
sign new verification protocols to the 1974 Threshold
Test-Ban Treaty and the 1976 Underground
Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes Treaty, which provides for advanced
notification and onsite inspection of tests above 35 kilotons.
June 1 1990 [C] Presidents Bush and Gorbachev
sign the bilateral "Agreement on Destruction
and Non-production of Chemical Weapons and on Measures to Facilitate the Multilateral
Convention on Banning Chemical Weapons."
June 19-21 1990 [B, C] At a meeting of the Australia
Group in Paris, the United States obtains an agreement "to control additional
chemicals, expand the group's activities into biological weapon proliferation,
pursue further standardization, and create an export data base."
July 1990 [N] South Africa begins to dismantle its nuclear weapons.
Aug 2 1990 [O] Iraq invades Kuwait.
Aug 20-Sept 14 1990 [N] The fourth nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) Review Conference is held in Geneva.
Sept 25 1990 [N] The United States ratifies the
Threshold Test-Ban Treaty.
The treaty prohibits underground nuclear weapon tests with a yield exceeding
150 kilotons.
Sept 27 1990 [N] The last of the U.S. Pershing II
missiles leave West Germany. The United States withdrew the missiles in accordance
with the INF Treaty,
which eliminated and prohibited the possession of an entire class of ground-launched
intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles and their launchers.
Oct 3 1990 [O] The reunification of Germany is
complete.
Oct 24 1990 [N] The Soviet Union conducts its
last nuclear test before adhering to a unilateral moratorium.
Nov 15 1990 [C, B] President Bush issues Executive
Order 12735, which finds that the spread of CW
and BW constitutes an "unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," and
declares a state of national emergency to deal with this threat.
Nov 16 1990 [N] The Stockholm Declaration on Preventing
Accidental Nuclear War is released.
Nov 19 1990 [O] The Treaty
on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) is signed by states
that are members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or the Warsaw
Pact.
Nov 29 1990 [N] Argentine President Carlos Menem
and Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello sign the Declaration on the
Common Nuclear Policy, which formally renounces nuclear weapons and establishes
a framework for the implementation of a bilateral nuclear accounting and inspection
arrangement with full IAEA safeguards.
Dec 4 1990 [N] The UN General Assembly adopts
a resolution calling for the Establishment of a Nuclear-Weapons-Free
Zone in the Middle East.
Dec 11 1990 [N] New verification protocols for
the 1974 Threshold Test-Ban
Treaty enter into force.
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