The Quebec Agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlined terms for coordinated scientific development of nuclear energy. It stipulated that the US and UK would pool their resources to develop nuclear weapons, and that neither would use the weapons against another country without mutual consent, or pass information about them to other countries. The agreement merged the British Tube Alloys project with the American Manhattan Project, and created the Combined Policy Committee to control the joint project. It was signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt on 19 August 1943 during World War II, at the Quadrant Conference in Quebec City in Canada. Although Canada was not a signatory, the agreement provided for a Canadian representative on the Combined Policy Committee in view of the country's contribution. On 7 January 1948, the Quebec Agreement was superseded by a provisional agreement allowing for limited sharing of technical information.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Agreement

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1797:

The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Italy

1939:

The French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium

1979:

The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War

1989:

Representatives of Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khomeini%27s_letter_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

to say nothing of: (idiomatic) An apophasis used to mention another important, usually related, point: not taking into account, not to mention, without considering. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_say_nothing_of

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Many people think that conservation is just about saving fluffy animals – what they don’t realise is that we’re trying to prevent the human race from committing suicide … We have declared war on the biological world, the world that supports us … At the moment the human race is in the position of a man sawing off the tree branch he is sitting on.   --Gerald Durrell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell