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Arms control treaties

  • START IIGeorge H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin met in Moscow on the 3rd of January 1993 to sign a historic agreement. This event marked the official start of the START…
  • Outer Space TreatyThe Soviet Union launched Sputnik in October 1957. This first artificial satellite changed the geopolitical landscape overnight.
  • START IUS President Ronald Reagan stood at Eureka College on the 9th of May 1982 to announce a radical new vision for global security.
  • Strategic Arms Limitation TalksThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in Helsinki on the 17th of November 1969. Gerard C. Smith led the American delegation as director of the Arms…
  • Washington Naval TreatyIn November 1918, the British Royal Navy interned the defeated German High Seas Fleet. The Allied powers held sharply differing views on what to do with…
  • Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
  • Anglo-German Naval AgreementPart V of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed severe limitations on Germany's naval forces. The treaty allowed no submarines, no naval aviation, and only…
  • New STARTOn the 8th of April 2010, Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev met in Prague to sign a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. The document carried the formal name…
  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsThe Cold War created a fragile world where the United States and Soviet Union held nuclear weapons that could end civilization.
  • Treaty of VersaillesThe Palace of Versailles hosted the signing of a peace treaty on the 28th of June 1919, exactly five years after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyIn March 1976, the Soviet Union deployed its first RSD-10 Pioneer missile system in European territories. Western analysts called this weapon the SS-20 Saber.
  • Antarctic Treaty SystemOn the 26th of August 1946, the United States launched Operation Highjump. This massive military expedition sent 13 ships and 4,700 men to Antarctica.
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyThe Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 released a yield of 15 megatons, more than double the expected power. Radioactive particles spread over…