When were the following nuclear arms treaties signed?

Limited Test Ban Treaty—August 1963

Antiballistic Missile Treaty—May 1972

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)—June 1979 Strategic Arms

Reduction Treaty (START) I—July 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) II January 1993

When did Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry first visit Japan? Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry first brought an armed squadron to Tokyo Bay in 1853, when he delivered a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the emperor of Japan. In 1854, on a second…
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