2. This Treaty shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification and instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which are hereby designated the Depositary Governments. 3. This Treaty shall enter into force after its ratification by the States, the Governments of which are designated Depositaries of the Treaty, and forty other States signatory to this Treaty and the deposit of their instruments of ratification. For the purposes of this Treaty, a nuclear-weapon State is one which has manufactured and exploded a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device prior to January 1, 1967. 4. For States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited subsequent to the entry into force of this Treaty, it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or accession. 5. The Depositary Governments shall promptly inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification or of accession, the date of the entry into force of this Treaty, and the date of receipt of any requests for convening a conference or other notices. 6. This Treaty shall be registered by the Depositary Governments pursuant to article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. ARTICLE X 1. Each Party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this Treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other Parties to the Treaty and to the United Nations Security Council three months in advance. Such notice shall include a statement of the extraordinary events it regards as having jeopardized its supreme interests. 2. Twenty-five years after the entry into force of the Treaty, a conference shall be convened to decide whether the Treaty shall continue in force indefinitely, or shall be extended for an additional fixed period or periods. This decision shall be taken by a majority of the Parties to the Treaty. ARTICLE XI This Treaty, the English, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Depositary Governments. Duly certified copies of this Treaty shall be transmitted by the Depositary Governments to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed this Treaty. DONE in triplicate, at the cities of Washington, London and Moscow, this first day of July one thousand nine hundred sixty-eight. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY Message from the President transmitting treaty to the Senate, July 9, 1968 (Document Executive H, 90th Cong., second sess.). Referred to the Senate on Foreign Relations, July 9, 1968. Hearings (public) held before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations jointly with Senate members of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, July 10-12 and 17, 1968; published under the title "Nonproliferation Treaty." Reported by Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 26, 1968 (Ex. Rept. No. 9, 90th Cong., second sess.). Further hearings (public) held before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 18 and 20, 1969; published under the title "Nonproliferation Treaty, Part 2." Advice and consent to ratification given by Senate: March 13, 1969. Treaty ratified by President: March 5, 1970. Treaty proclaimed by President: March 5, 1970. 21 U.S.T. 483, TIAS 6839. TREATY ON THE NONPROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS LIST OF COUNTRIES SIGNING WITH DATES OF SIGNATURE AND OF DEPOSIT, IF APPLICABLE (AS OF MAY 17, 1974) [Signature at Washington, unless otherwise indicated by (M), which denotes signature at Moscow and (L) London] TREATY ON THE NONPROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS-LIST OF COUNTRIES SIGNING WITH DATES OF SIGNATURE AND OF DEPOSIT, IF APPLICABLE (AS OF MAY 17, 1974)-Continued [Signature at Washington, unless otherwise indicated by (M), which denotes signature at Moscow and (L) London] APPENDIX W TRANSFER OF OTOWI SECTION LAND (80 Stat. 1026) [PUBLIC LAW 89-693] [89TH CONGRESS-H.R. 16813] [OCTOBER 15, 1966] AN ACT To transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission complete administrative control of approximately seventy-eight acres of public domain land located in the Otowi section near Los Alamos County Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all land and interests in land owned by the United States within the boundaries described below and located in the county of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, containing approximately seventy-eight acres, are hereby transferred, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, to the Atomic Energy Commission. The Atomic Energy Commission shall exercise administrative control over all land and interests in land transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission by this Act, notwithstanding the manner of their acquisition by the United States or their status at any time prior to the effective date of this Act. A certain tract of land situated in sections 7 and 18, township 19 north, range 7 east, New Mexico principal meridian, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, which tract is described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of the parcel herein described, said northwest corner being a point on the county line common to Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico, which is identified as angle point numbered 1, and which has New Mexico State plane coordinates X equal to 501,333.75 and Y equal to 1,778,638.44; from angle point numbered 1, the westerly section corner between section 7 and 18, township 19 north, range 7 east, New Mexico principal meridian (U.S.G.L.O. brass cap in place), which has New Mexico State plane coordinates X equal to 501,202.94 and Y equal to 1,777,592.78, bears south 07 degrees 04 minutes 35 seconds west, 1,054.15 feet distance: Thence, south 54 degrees 08 minutes 20 seconds east, 1,380.23 feet distance to angle point numbered 2: thence, south 42 degrees 29 minutes 43 seconds east, 1,538.98 feet distance to angle point numbered 3; thence, south 53 degrees 11 minutes 59 seconds west, 659.70 feet distance to angle point numbered 4; thence, south 89 degrees 13 minutes 21 seconds west, 1,179.64 feet distance angle point numbered 5; thence, north 86 degrees 48 minutes 43 seconds west, 746.75 feet distance to quarter corner section 13, township 19 north, range 6 east; thence, north 07 degrees 27 minutes 15 seconds east, 1,277.64 feet distance to the corner between sections 7 and 18 described above; thence, north 07 degrees 04 minutes 35 seconds east, 1,054.15 feet distance to the point of beginning. The above-described tract contains 78.1 acres more or less. The bearings of the preceding description are based on a local grid which conforms to the local grid bearing system used for eastern area subdivision numbered 1, filed for record with the clerk of Los Alamos County, New Mexico, on April 13, 1965, under document numbered 3924 in book 1 of plats at page 55. On the local grid north 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds east is equal to north 00 degrees 01 minutes 36 seconds east on the New Mexico State plane grid, control zone. The distance scale factor from the local grid to the New Mexico State plane grid is 0.999553. Approved October 15, 1966. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY House Report No. 1873 (Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs). September 6: Considered and passed House. 43-785-79-53 |