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January 1948, the Quebec Agreement was superseded by a provisional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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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