Chapter 3

History - Negotiating the Treaty
Timeline

he mid-1960s saw progress on a nonproliferation treaty, with a conceptual version approved by the UN General Assembly in 1965. The treaty was completed and opened for signature and ratification by individual states in 1968, and entered into force in 1970.

1965

South Africa (not a party to NPT) secretly constructs its first nuclear weapon.

An event in the South Atlantic may have been an Israeli and/or South African nuclear test.

U.S. and USSR sign SALT II Treaty but never ratify the agreement.

1967
1968
1969
1970
1972
1974
1975
1976
1979
1980
1981
1982
1985
1986
1987
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007

 
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