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  • March 5, 1957 - The United States and Iran sign an agreement under the Atoms for Peace program. The United States plans to supply Iran with enriched uranium for civilian purposes.
  • March 5, 1970 - The Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force.
  • March 21, 1984 - The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk collides with a Soviet attack submarine. The submarine is carrying nuclear armed torpedoes, and the carrier is armed with several dozen nuclear weapons.
  • March 28, 1946 - Acheson-Lilienthal Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy is released stating, "Only if the dangerous aspects of atomic energy are taken out of national hands...is there any reasonable prospect of devising safeguards against the use of atomic energy for atomic bombs."
 
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