1979 ⟶ NATO's Double-Track Decision on Missiles
NATO Double-Track Decision – NATO offers mutual limitation o...
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☢️ Truman Announces Hydrogen Bomb Development
President Truman announces the beginning of the development of a hydrogen bomb.⟶
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🚩 Warsaw Pact Founded
The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It acts as the Communist military counterpart to NATO.⟶
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🇮🇹 Jupiter IRBM Deployment to Italy Begins
Jupiter IRBM deployment to Italy begins, placing nuclear missiles within striking range of Moscow (as with the Thor IRBMs deployed in the UK).⟶
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☢️ NATO's Double-Track Decision on Missiles
NATO Double-Track Decision – NATO offers mutual limitation of ballistic missiles combined with the threat that in case of disagreement NATO would deploy more middle-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe.⟶
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🤝 Spain Joins NATO
☢️ Soviet Union Announces Nuclear Test Moratorium
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union begins what it has announced is a 5-month unilateral moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. The Reagan administration dismisses the dramatic move as nothing more than propaganda and refuses to follow suit. Gorbachev declares several extensions, but the United States fails to reciprocate, and the moratorium comes to an end on February 5, 1987.⟶
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