Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Military History
- Subcategories: Treaties, Agreements, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, 20th & 21st Century European History, British History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Moscow, Russia, Washington, D.C., Geneva
- Date: September 24, 1963
Article abstract: A major step in prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons is ratified.
Summary of Event
The story of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has its origins in the last year of World War II. On July 16, 1945, the United States for the first time exploded an atomic bomb, at Alamogordo, New Mexico. On August 6 and 9, the United States dropped the only atomic bombs ever used in wartime—on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The end of the war came very shortly thereafter, but so did the realization that the United States had...
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