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

Iraq defeated in Persian Gulf War; under UN Security Council Resolution 687, UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspections begin.

The U.S. and Soviet Union sign the START I Treaty. U.S. and USSR declare unilateral cuts in tactical nuclear weapons. USSR collapses in December.

Republic of South Africa joins NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state after dismantling its arsenal of nuclear warheads.

Argentina and Brazil formally renounce nuclear weapons and agree to mutual inspections under the Argentine-Brazil Agency for Accounting and Control (ABACC).

U.K. conducts its last nuclear test.

1967
1968
1969
1970
1972
1974
1975
1976
1979
1980
1981
1982
1985
1986
1987
1989
1990
1991
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