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Weapons
2006
North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test
2005
North Korea announces that it has nuclear weapons
2003
United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said there is no evidence that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction
1998
Pakistan tests underground nuclear weapons, sparking fears of a nuclear conflict with India
1994
House passes the assault weapons ban
1991
U.S.S.R. reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1991
U.N. weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
1991
Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1989
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and U.S. chemical weapons
1989
140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1989
Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1989
International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
1985
Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
1983
Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983
U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1983
House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
1982
Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1979
US and U.S.S.R. sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1974
Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord
1972
U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1971
U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1970
4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
1967
U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with Engl and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space
1967
Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1966
US and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1963
French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
1962
Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1960
French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960
French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1958
1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1958
U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same
1958
West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1957
Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1955
President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1950
Chiang Kai-shek asks U.S. for weapons
1948
U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1935
Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay
1926
John M Brown, U.S. weapons constructer, dies
1912
Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1855
John M Browning, U.S., weapons manufacturer
1776
France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
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