NPT Historical Photos

PRESERVING THE LEGACY: NPT Depositary Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Opening for Signature of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons

U.S. State Department, Washington, DC, June 28, 2018 The United Nations First Committee hears views on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Danilo Lekic of Yugoslavia makes a statement, and to the left is Foreign Minister Mulikita of Zambia. October 25,1965. Photo: UN/Yutaka Nagata. The Gilpatric Report. Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Committee File, Committee on Nuclear Proliferation, Report (Final, 12/21/65), Box 8. Secret. Amb. Alva Myrdal, a Swedish representative to the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, offered amendments to the NPT, including Article VI. UNESCO Photo. U.S. Diplomat George Bunn (right) at the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva (undated). Source: Matthew Bunn Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, and Soviet Amb. to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC, October 10, 1966, UPI Photo. Plaza of the Three Cultures, Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 1966. Photo: Dirección General del Acervo Histórico Diplomático, SRE, Mexico. Courtesy of Jonathan Hunt. Amb. Alfonso García Robles signs the Treaty of Tlatelolco on behalf of Mexico in Mexico City on February 14, 1967. Photo: OPANAL During his trip to Western Europe, U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey met with William C. Foster, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), 27 March 1967, in Geneva, Switzerland. Foster was in Geneva for discussions with members of the UN’s Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament. Photo from Hubert Humphrey Papers, box C-12. Folder C-870 1967 European Tour March 27, Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, and West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt attend the funeral of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, April 26, 1967, in Cologne, Germany. While in Germany, Johnson discussed the NPT with Kiesinger, who never approved the treaty. Soon after Brandt become chancellor, however, the Foreign Ministry signed the NPT in November 1969. Photograph from Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, C-5163-34. Memo recording discussions of the IAEA-EURATOM inspections issue. December 16, 1967 UK Report on West German and USSR views on safeguards – the impasse breaks. United Kingdom: The National Archives FCO 10/203, R.C. Hope-Jones to Mr R. J. O’Neill, 18 January 1968. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk speaking with President Lyndon B. Johnson during a cabinet meeting, February 9, 1968. Photo from LBJ Library. The NPT was opened for signature in three capitals, London, Moscow, and Washington, D.C., on July 1, 1968. Representatives from the Depositary states signed three times, in all three locations. President Lyndon B. Johnson looks on as Secretary of State Dean Rusk signs the NPT, July 1, 1968, Washington. Photo: National Archives LB306-PSD-68-2055 Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin signs the NPT in Washington as British Ambassador Sir Patrick Dean and Ambassadors from non-aligned states look on. Photo: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Irish Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken signing the NPT in Moscow, July 1, 1968. Source: University College Dublin and Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson signs the NPT as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko watches in Moscow, on July 1, 1968 (State Dept/AP Photo), available at https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt Amb. Hugo B. Margáin of Mexico signing the NPT, July 26, 1968. Credit National Archives, VS-50-2. The Chargé d’Affaires of Ethiopia signing the NPT on September 5, 1968. Photo: National Archives VS-626-68. Deposit by the United Kingdom of its instrument of ratification for the NPT in Washington, November 27, 1968. Photo: National Archives, 59-N-VS-843. Germany signs the NPT in Washington on November 28, 1969. Photo: National Archives, 59-N-VS-1111-8-69. Yugoslavia signs the NPT, March 4, 1970. Photo: National Archives 59-N-VS-879-1-70 First meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, April 1, 1974. Photo Credit: United Nations. Amb. Mohamed Shaker, Egyptian NPT negotiator, President of the 1985 Review Conference, and author of a history of the Treaty’s negotiation. Source: CTBTO, undated. Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, President of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference addresses a press conference at United Nations Headquarters. April 26, 1995. Photo : UN/Evan Schneider. NPT negotiators George Bunn and Roland Timerbaev circa 1990s, courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat (left), Chairman of the Committee's third session, confers at the Final Preparatory Session for the 2005 NPT Review Conference, United Nations, New York, April 26, 2004. Photo Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider. Amb. Mohamed Shaker (left) discusses the reissue of his book on the NPT in 2010. To his right are three other NPT Review Conference Presidents—Ambs. Sergio Duarte, Jayantha Dhanapala, and Abdallah Baali and Dr. William Potter of CNS. Photo: CNS. U.S. Amb. Laura Kennedy tweets from the plenary session of the NPT PrepCom, May 2, 2013. Photo: US Mission, Geneva. Amb. Rafael Grossi of Argentina, UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, Head of the IAEA Geneva Office Meena Singelee, and Amb. Socorro Flores of Mexico at the Women in the NPT side event, April 25, 2018. Photo: Rob Floyd.