History & The Arts
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
...writing and lobbying campaigns to influence policymakers. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, in which the United States and the Soviet Union came close to triggering a nuclear war, further raised public awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons. In 1963, this led to the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty by the United States, the Soviet Union and the United...
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