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Weapons:  Nuclear Accident and Radiological Emergency

Conventions done at Vienna on September 26, 1986; transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate March 23, 1987 (Treaty Doc. 100-4, 100th Congress, 1st Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations July 13, 1988 (Senate Executive Report No. 100-20, 100th Congress, 2d Session);  Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate September 7, 1988; Ratified by the President September 15, 1988; Instrument of Ratification of the United States of America deposited September 19, 1988; entered into force for the United States October 20, 1988.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future