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Treaty of Threshold Test Ban Treaty

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

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Chronological records

1974

Richard Milhous Nixon3 July 1974

Moscow · Government / Republican Party Government

The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)

Names involved

Richard Milhous Nixon

Provenance

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