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Cold War treaties
- NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization began its life on the 4th of April 1949 when twelve nations signed a document in Washington.
- Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic RelationsPresident Jimmy Carter stood before the press on the 15th of December 1978 to deliver a historic statement. He declared that official diplomatic relations…
- PactomaniaA 1955 article in The New York Times introduced the word Pactomania to describe a specific historical period. This term captured the intense activity of…
- Reykjavík SummitThe former French consulate and British embassy, called Höfði, was the site of the Reykjavík Summit in 1986. This building stood on a hill overlooking the…
- Warsaw PactThe Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, hosted a signing ceremony on the 14th of May 1955. Eight nations gathered to establish the Treaty of Friendship…
- Outer Space TreatyThe Soviet Union launched Sputnik in October 1957. This first artificial satellite changed the geopolitical landscape overnight.
- ANZUSThe Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty emerged from a moment of profound anxiety in the Pacific. Following the fall of Singapore during…
- 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…
- Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956On the 19th of October 1956, Japan and the Soviet Union signed a Joint Declaration in Moscow. This document ended the state of war that had persisted since…
- Stalin NoteOn the 10th of March 1952, Andrei Gromyko delivered a diplomatic note to representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in Berlin.
- 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.
- North Atlantic TreatyTheodore Achilles kept a draft of the North Atlantic Treaty in the bottom drawer of his safe during secret talks at the Pentagon.
- 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.
- Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationJohn Foster Dulles stood at the center of a diplomatic storm in September 1954. He negotiated the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty in Manila…
- 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.
- Helsinki AccordsThe closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe took place in Helsinki, Finland.
- 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…
- Treaty of San FranciscoForty-nine nations gathered inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on the 8th of September 1951. The room held delegates from Argentina to…