U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part II: The Nixon-Ford Years, 1969-1976 (DNSA 65 – Digital National Security Archive)
This collection documents key developments in the history of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy during the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford from January 1969 to January 1977. With the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) going into effect in 1970, President Richard Nixon and his successor, Gerald Ford, faced challenges posed by bomb-seeking nations that refused to sign it – Israel (which already had the bomb), India, and Pakistan – and even by those that had signed the Treaty – Taiwan and South Korea. The Indian peaceful nuclear explosion (PNE) of 18 May 1974 was a watershed event that had a deep and lasting impact on U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy, requiring Washington to give the broad policy issues it raised far more serious and higher-level attention to nuclear proliferation than they had in early years of the Nixon administration. – Publisher
