CHECKLIST OF DATES

1946  Acheson-Lilienthal report on control of atomic energy
  AEC, ONR founded
  Special Assistant for Atomic Energy at State
1947  Overseas S&T Mission, London; until 1949
  NSC, CIA
1948  USIA
1949  NATO, Soviet nuclear bomb

1950  NSF
1951  European Coal and Steel Community
  Science adviser position at State until 1955
  Science officers to five embassies until 1955
1952  U.S. hydrogen bomb
1953  Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech at UN; Stalin dies
  Soviet hydrogen bomb
1955  UN Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
  International Cooperation Agency (ICA) at State; forerunner of AID
1956  IAEA; Khrushchev denounces Stalin; Hungary repressed
1957  Sputnik; apogee of Soviet S&T, but overrated
1957-8 International Geophysical Year
1958  Law of the Sea (LOS) I
  Treaty of Rome establishes EC
  Science adviser position at State reestablished as Office of Science Adviser
  NASA
1959  Antarctic Treaty (in force 1961)

1960  LOS II
1961  OECD, ACDA, AID (from ICA, founded 1955)
1962  Office of International Scientific Affairs (SCI) at State
  Office of Science and Technology (OST) reorganized at White House
  Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1963  UNCSAT
  Limited nuclear test ban treaty: U.S., USSR, U.K.
1964  INTELSAT
1967  SCI becomes Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
1968   Nonproliferation Treaty (in force 1970); Prague Spring crushed by Soviets
1969  U.S. moon landing

1970  SCI becomes a bureau at State
1972  Stockholm UN environment conference
  CERDS, SALT I
1973  LOS III
  OES bureau legislation

  Nixon abolishes OST
  Oil embargo
1973-5 CSCE
1974  Bucharest UN population conference
  UN sixth special session of general assembly
  OES bureau established
  NRC, ERDA, FEA
1975  UN seventh special session of general assembly
  UN 30th general assembly
  UNIDO II Lima
  G-7 economic summits begin
  Vietnam war ends
1975-7 CIEC
1976  UN 31st general assembly
  UNCTAD IV
  Congress reestablishes OST as Office of Science and  Technology Policy (OSTP)
1977  INFCE
  DOE
1978  U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Act
  NOAA
  Dissident persecution in USSR
1979  UNCSTD; USSR invades Afghanistan
  Three-Mile Island nuclear accident in United States
  Salt II

1980  U.S. withdraws from Moscow olympics
  U.S.-USSR exchange freeze
1983  U.S. invades Grenada; KAL plane crash; "evil empire"
1984  UN population conference Mexico City
1985  U.S. strategic defense initiative
1985-7 Soviet nuclear test moratorium
1985-91 Gorbachev in power; S&T agreements resume
1986  Shuttle Challenger disaster
  Chernobyl nuclear accident in USSR
1988  Moscow summit renews dÈtente
  U.S. authorizes China space launches
1989  U.S. troops in Panama; EXXON Valdez oil spill

1991  Gulf War
  Soviet Union breaks up
  START I
1991-  Yeltsin in power
1992  UN environment conference Rio de Janeiro
1993  Former Soviet Union states relinquish nuclear weapons
  START II

1994  UN population conference Cairo; NAFTA
1995  U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian MIR
  Dayton agreement on Bosnia-Herzegovina
1996  Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty negotiated
1998  India nuclear tests
  Pakistan nuclear tests