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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well aware that France was about to explode an atomic bomb, the U.S. proposed a treaty that it believed could lead to quickest practical agreement and serve until East and West could arrive at 100% control. Specifically, the U.S. proposed to end "forthwith under assured controls" 1) all nuclear weapons tests in the earth's atmosphere; 2) all tests in the oceans; 3) all nuclear tests in those regions of space where effective controls are currently possible; and 4) all controllable nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth. To get around disagreements on how to measure underground...