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Treaties of East Germany
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights traces its origins to the 1945 San Francisco Conference where delegates drafted a…
- Montreal ProtocolIn 1974, chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina published a paper in the journal Nature that changed how humanity viewed its own air.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the 16th of December 1966.
- Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons concluded its negotiations in Geneva on the 10th of October 1980.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…