June 18 - SALT II Treaty is signed in Vienna by Brezhnev and Carter. The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty - Multilateral agreement among the nations of the South Pacific. The Soviet Union announces a nuclear testing moratorium. December 8 - Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF Treaty. 1994 Several attempts to smuggle nuclear material from C.I.S. are stopped.
Global pressure resolves the crisis.
August - The U.S. annouces a total ban on all U.S. nuclear weapon testing. September 5 - Under worldwide protest, France resumes nuclear testing in the South Pacific. March 25 - The United States, France, and United Kingdom sign The Treaty of Rarotonga, which created a South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone. China and C.I.S had already signed the treaty. The Treaty of Pelindaba creates a Nuclear Free Zone throughout Africa.