Chronology of some Important Nuclear Arms Policy
1945: The Use of Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II. The nuclear age had truly begun with the first military use of atomic weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1952: The first USA hydrogen bomb tested by USA.
1953: The first hydrogen bomb tested by Soviet Union.
1957: The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite (Sputnik 1). Announcement of Sputnik 1 ignited the Space Race within the Cold War.
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. The Cuban and Soviet governments placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.
1959-1975: The Vietnam War was a military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1959 to 30 April 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other nations.
1971: Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War Between the USA and the soviet Union. This agreement called as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
1972: The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
1980: To use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. There is possibility of nuclear Star War.
1996: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. The United Nations General Assembly adopted it on 10 September 1996 but it has not yet entered into force.2006: The North Korean successfully conducted a nuclear test for the first time.
