February 4, 1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin hold Conference at Yalta. They agree upon occupation zones for postwar Germany, a plan to set up a new government for Poland, and "a general international organization to maintain peace and security."
February 11, 2003 - US Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet warns of an upsurge in the desire for nuclear weapons among small nations, citing North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya.
February 14, 1967 - The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin Ameria, or Treaty of Tlatelolco, is signed in Mexico City. Parties agree not to manufacture, test, acquire nuclear weapons or accept nuclear weapons deployed on their territory by others.
February 24, 1950 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff request an "all out effort to build H-bomb."
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