January 10, 2003 - North Korea announces its withdrawal from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This is the first time a NPT member state has taken such action.
January 12, 1954 - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the policy of massive retaliation. It states that "local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power."
January 15, 1986 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2000. He states, "No one must be indifferent or stand aloof in the matter of preserving peace and saving mankind from the threat of nuclear war."
January 17, 1966 - A B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons has a midair accident while refueling and drops four nuclear weapons on Palomares, Spain.
January 24, 1946 - The UN General Assembly adopts its first resolution, which establishes an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and calls for the "elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction."
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