As we all know the start of the struggle concerning nuclear weapons started on August 6th, 1945 when we dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
From that point on it was basically a race between countries to see who had the most formidable weapons program; the two major forerunners of this race were America and the Soviet Union. This was the start of the cold war.
There have been many treaties pertaining to nuclear weapons around the world. The first one was an attempted one in 1950 called the Stockholm appeal whose purpose was to call for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons.
Then in December of 1959 the Antarctic treaty was concluded. This treaty prevented any military usage, including nuclear weapons testing, from happening in Antarctica.
In 1967 we signed the Outer space Treaty, which prohibited countries from placing nuclear weapons in orbit or on other celestial bodies.
In February of the same year the Latin American countries signed a the treaty of Tlatelolco which prevented the placement of nuclear weapons on the seabed farther than the countries control, which is about a 12 mile limit.
Finally in July of 1968 we signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, preventing non-nuclear states from acquiring nuclear weapons and obligating nuclear powers to work on arms control and
disarmament. This is one of the major treaties that in my opinion has caused some issues. Of course I agree with the treaty, but I know it has caused strife between countries on the Security Council. All in all I think that all these treaties are pretty good, but if the countries had just agreed with and signed the first appeal we wouldn’t have to worry about all the other ones and the potential threat to the world and its inhabitants should there every be a nuclear war.
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