Arms control
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Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. Arms
Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President Reagan signing the INF Treaty in 1987
Gari Melchers War Highsmith
Antarctic Treaty System
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The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native hum
Arms control
…Geneva Protocol, 1925 – prohibited the use of biological and chemical weapons against enemy nationals in international armed conflict Antarctic Treaty, signed 1959, entered into force 1961 – prohibited military conflict in Antarctica Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed and entered into force 1963…
A 2002 satellite composite image of Antarctica
1957 poster of Antarctica IGY projects
Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline, as at the Russian Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection.
This 1959 cover commemorated the opening of the Wilkes post office in the Australian Antarctic Territory.