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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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