START I is signed in Moscow
The first treaty to require actual reductions in strategic nuclear forces rather than caps on their growth was signed months before the state that signed it ceased to exist. Its implementation therefore became a problem of succession: strategic weapons were left on the territory of several newly independent states, and a subsequent protocol arranged for those weapons to be removed to Russia and for the other states to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon states.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons · treaty · not located
- Second-strike survivability · concept · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Status of World Nuclear Forces and the Nuclear Notebook
Named as the canonical open published series for warhead inventories and force structure across the period and after it. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; no warhead total, peak-stockpile figure or year of peak is quoted anywhere in this pack, and a curator should take every such number from this series directly.
Federation of American Scientists and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists · Partly verified
Federation of American Scientists, Status of World Nuclear Forces; Nuclear Notebook series published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Recorded on Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- The Soviet Union is formally dissolved · 1991-12-26
- The Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force · 1970-03-05
- The Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature · 1968-07-01
- The Partial Test Ban Treaty is signed in Moscow · 1963-08-05