^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^A TIME LINE OF NUCLEAR DISARMMENT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[cinderella man]

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The Atomic Age Is Born
The first atom-bomb test took place on July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m. at Trinity Site in New Mexico.
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Armed
After World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union began to aggressively develop and stockpile nuclear weaponry, outfitting planes and submarines with the capacity to strike the enemy at a moment's notice. In this photo, a crew prepares for a test launch on the Regulus, a submarine with nuclear firing capabilities, in the Pacific.
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Men in the Middle
Prior to 1960, the U.S. had no comprehensive nuclear action plan; each branch of the armed forces had its own. In the final months of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, a formal plan called SIOP (for Single Integrated Operational Plan) was developed. But it suffered from an appalling level of disregard for the reality of nuclear weaponry. Robert McNamara, above right, John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, altered the plan in significant ways: by not directing missiles at China in the case of war, and by focusing on military targets instead of cities.
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At the Ready
The arms race, SIOP notwithstanding, did not cease. The U.S. arsenal hit its peak in 1967, with 31,255 nuclear weapons. Russia at that time had fewer than 10,000, though its number would peak at 40,159 in 1986. The photos above show, from left, the red telephone at Strategic Air Command headquarters near Omaha and a Minuteman nuclear missile in its silo.
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Big Display
In 1967 the Russians paraded two 120-ft. (37 m) intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) for the first time in public across Red Square, during an event honoring the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. Missiles like these had a range of 7,000 miles (about 11,000 km), meaning they could have reached most parts of the U.S.
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Partners in Arms Control
Efforts to bring the arms race between the two superpowers under control began in earnest with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which began in 1969. The bilateral meetings lasted for many years and produced limited results but brought the two sides together on the critical issue. This 1973 photo of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon was taken on a plane en route to Camp David, Maryland, to continue conversations about preventing nuclear war.
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The Reagan Years
The U.S. arsenal remained at a constant level for most of the 1980s, as President Ronald Reagan cast the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposal to use ground- and space-based systems to protect the U.S. from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative, dubbed "Star Wars," was criticized as unrealistic and a threat to destabilize the status quo. In this photo, a poster purporting to lay out the true size of the U.S.S.R.'s collection of SS-20s (a type of ICBM) is displayed during testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Destruction
The bilateral meetings that had led to SALT resulted in the development of another treaty, dubbed SALT II. Signed in 1979, the agreement was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, though its terms were honored by both sides. In 1987 the U.S. destroyed a number of Titan II missiles, above, in accordance with the treaty, though critics observed that these ICBMs were more or less obsolete by that time.
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Silo
Progress on disarmament resumed with the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 1987, as Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as 300 to 3,400 miles (480 to 5,500 km). By 1991, the U.S. destroyed 846 such weapons; the Russians got rid of more than twice that number.
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Breakthrough
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Gorbachev signed START I, a treaty that set a goal for the two superpowers to cut their nuclear arsenals by a third. Gorbachev hailed the agreement as a "moral achievement" that replaced "military thinking" with "normal human thinking."
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Ballistic No More
Above, Ukrainian soldiers prepare to destroy a missile in Vakulenchuk in 1997. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine contributed to disarmament by destroying many of the nuclear warheads in its territory — which had previously counted as part of the Soviet arsenal.
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New Dawn
The trend toward disarmament, it is hoped, will continue with the signing in 2010 of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev. The agreement, which has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, would allow a maximum of 1,550 deployed warheads, about 30% lower than the limit set in 2002

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[NaughtyBoy]

manadaggara oo 100 untaaya mama  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

[CrazyIndians]

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[cinderella man]

[quote author=SARKAAR link=topic=169273.msg2051284#msg2051284 date=1300435611]
manadaggara oo 100 untaaya mama  sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
[/quote]100+ unnai mama..but pakistan kante takkuve unnai...nuclear war heads meedha inko post vesanu chudu mama

[NaughtyBoy]

[quote author=cinderella man link=topic=169273.msg2051294#msg2051294 date=1300435893]
100+ unnai mama..but pakistan kante takkuve unnai...nuclear war heads meedha inko post vesanu chudu mama
[/quote]avunu mama aa paki na ko gaallaki manakante ekkuve unnayi but most of them paina made in china ane tag untundi kavochu  @3$% @3$%

[CrazyIndians]

[quote author=SARKAAR link=topic=169273.msg2051304#msg2051304 date=1300436248]
avunu mama aa paki na ko gaallaki manakante ekkuve unnayi but most of them paina made in china ane tag untundi kavochu  @3$% @3$%
[/quote]

paina made in china... kinda American flag... launch from Lashkar-e base...  @3$% @3$% @3$%

[NaughtyBoy]

[quote author=CRAZYINDIAN link=topic=169273.msg2051306#msg2051306 date=1300436357]
paina made in china... kinda American flag... launch from Lashkar-e base...  @3$% @3$% @3$%
[/quote]aimed at Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore  @3$% @3$% @3$%

[CrazyIndians]

[quote author=SARKAAR link=topic=169273.msg2051309#msg2051309 date=1300436622]
aiming at Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore  @3$% @3$% @3$%
[/quote]
sHa_high5ing sHa_high5ing @3$% @3$% @3$%

[cinderella man]

[quote author=CRAZYINDIAN link=topic=169273.msg2051306#msg2051306 date=1300436357]
paina made in china... kinda American flag... launch from Lashkar-e base...  @3$% @3$% @3$%
[/quote] @3$% @3$% @3$% valla velu tho valla kanne poduchukuntaaru

[CrazyIndians]

[quote author=cinderella man link=topic=169273.msg2051314#msg2051314 date=1300436729]
@3$% @3$% @3$% valla velu tho valla kanne poduchukuntaaru
[/quote]
@3$% @3$%

[The QUEEN]

  no comment sCo_hmmthink

[Deletedid1]

NUCLEAR DISARMMENT  is next to impossible

[cinderella man]

[quote author=BENZBABU link=topic=169273.msg2052501#msg2052501 date=1300459018]
NUCLEAR DISARMMENT  is next to impossible
[/quote]as long as India and Pakistan sign the CTBT antava mama  @3$% @3$%

[robo]

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