Sigvard Eklund1961
Appointed Director General of the IAEA
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Appointed Director General of the IAEA
The Agency signs a trilateral agreement with the Monaco and the Oceanographic Institute headed by Jacques Cousteau for research on the effects of radioactivity in the sea, leading to the creation of the IAEAs Marine Environment Laboratory
The IAEA opens its Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria, creating a channel for cooperative global nuclear research
The Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) freezes the number of declared nuclear weapon States to five (USA, Russia, UK, France and China) other States are required to forswear nuclear weapons & agree safeguards
Personally makes repeated inspection visits to the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osiraq before its attempted destruction by the Iranians, in 1980
Appointed Director General of the IAEA
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