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…