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July 27, 1968	Note, Andrei Gromyko to CPSU CC In this note to the CPSU CC, Andrei Gromyko lists the ministers of foreign affairs who will be coming to Moscow to sign the NPT. Ministers from these three Socialist nations are confirmed as guests: Czechoslovakia, GDR, and the Mongolian People's Republic.
June 1968	CPSU CC Decree, 'Regarding the Reception in the USSR of Ministers of Foreign Affairs Coming to Moscow to Sign the NPT' This decree by the CPSU CC describes how the Soviet government plans to welcome the ministers of foreign affairs coming to Moscow to sign the NPT. Many of these ministers hail from other Socialist states, while representatives from other nations are invited at the discretion of the Soviet MFA.
May 31, 1968	Note, Andrei Gromyko to CPSU CC, 'Regarding the Location of the NPT's Signing' This document is a communication to the Soviet UN delegation in New York, written by Vasily Vasilievich Kuznetsov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1968	[First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs] Vasily Kuznetsov to the Soviet Delegation in New York This document is a communication to the Soviet UN delegation in New York, written by Vasily Vasilievich Kuznetsov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes its contingency plan in case the US and UK refuse to sign the NPT in Geneva. This plan entails opening the treaty for signatures at the same time in Moscow, Washington, and London, using (presumably) the 1966 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies as a precedent for signing an agreement in three places at once.
1968	CPSU CC Decree, 'Regarding the Location of the NPT's Signing' A resolution from the CPSU CC about the location at which the NPT will be signed. The resolution approves the guidelines for Soviet delegates at the 22nd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
August 19, 1955	Proposal of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education on Providing Assistance to the Chinese People’s Republic in Training Specialists for Work in the Area of the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy The CPSU CC agrees to assist the PRC with nuclear energy training.
August 19, 1955	Letter to the Soviet Ambassador [in Beijing] The Soviet Union will help to train Chinese specialists in the area of nuclear energy.
September 4, 1954	Meeting held by Marshal of the Soviet Union Com. G.K. Zhukov 4 September 1954 at Totskoye Camps Notes from a discussion among Soviet military leaders concerning the risk of contamination during the Totskoye nuclear exercise.
April 1954	I. Petrov, 'On Safety [during the Totskoye Nuclear Exercise]' Petrov details efforts to limit contamination from the Totskoye nuclear exercise in 1954.
October 7, 1968	Decisions of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU for 3-11 October 1968, '17. The Issue of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research' The Politburo approves the resolution drafted by the USSR Council of Ministers.