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Defence Agreement

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1979–2000Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1979

Jimmy Carter27 December 1979

Government / Democratic Party Government

After Russia invades Afghanistan the US affirms the 1959 Pakistan defense agreement

2000

William Jefferson Bill Clinton4 June 2000

Government / Democratic Party Government

Clinton and Putin agree to each dispose 34 metric tons of weapons-grade nuclear plutonium and to establish a military centre in Moscow for US and Russian officers to share early warning data on missile and space launches

Names involved

Jimmy CarterWilliam Jefferson Bill Clinton

Provenance

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