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March 1968

Instructions to the Soviet representatives being sent to several countries for conversations on the draft nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Soviet representatives being sent to Italy, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Italy, are instructed to visit the head of state or the minister of foreign affairs and relay the oral declarations contained in this document. The country-specific oral declarations reinforce the Soviet position against the use of nuclear technology for militaristic objectives and object to proposed measures that would undermine the efficacy of the NPT.

April 9, 1968

Excerpts from Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev’s speech at the April 1968 Plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party

Brezhnev discusses negotiations with the United States over the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

June 4, 1957

Department of State Office of Intelligence Research, 'OIR Contribution to NIE 100-6-57: Nuclear Weapons Production by Fourth Countries – Likelihood and Consequences'

This lengthy report was State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research's contribution to the first National Intelligence Estimate on the nuclear proliferation, NIE 100-6-57. Written at a time when the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom were the only nuclear weapons states, the “Fourth Country” problem referred to the probability that some unspecified country, whether France or China, was likely to be the next nuclear weapons state. Enclosed with letter from Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Division of Research for USSR and Western Europe, to Roger Mateson, 4 June 1957, Secret

November 7, 1967

25th Meeting of Non-Aligned Group with Discussion on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions

Mexican and Brazilian representatives disagree on if peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are allowed by the Latin American treaty.

June 13, 1967

Telegram from Ambassador Trivedi, 'Non-Aligned Meeting'

Different points of Mexico and Brazil on the denuclearization treaty of Latin America

October 6, 1967

Telegram from the Indian Ambassador to Brazil, 'Nuclear Cooperation Between India and Brazil'

Brazil has entered cooperative agreements with many countries and is would like to work with India as well.

May 11, 1967

Telegram from the Indian Embassy of Brazil, 'Statement Made on 9th May 1967 by the Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil'

On May 9, Brazil signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco to ban nuclear weapons in Latin America.

August 31, 1966

Telegram from the Indian Embassy in Mexico City

The Latin American Denuclearization Commission has been post-poned.

May 13, 1966

Telegram from Charge d'Affaires of Mexico City on the Third Session of the Preparatory Commission for the Denuclearization of Latin America

This report focuses on Mexico and Brazil’s differeing approaches towards the issue of denuclearization of Latin America

June 25, 1977

Ministry of External Affairs, (AMS Division), 'The Nuclear Issue in Latin America'

Nuclear proliferation in Latin America.

Pagination