The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was signed on July 1, 1968, and entered into force on March 5, 1970 The treaty provides that signatory nations without nuclear weapons will not seek to build them and will accept safeguards to prevent diversion of nuclear material and technology from peaceful uses to weapons programs States possessing nuclear weapons at the signing of the NPT agreed not to help non-nuclear states gain access to nuclear weapons, but to offer them access to peaceful nuclear technology All states agree to work towards the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons As of August 2001, there were 187 Parties to the NPT The NPT also provides for review conferences at five-year intervals
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New Product Test GE and Honeywell organization that tested each new CPU in Phoenix after it was built, in an area of the DVCP manufacturing floor called the "test cell " In the late 70s, lack of test cell capacity was a limiting factor on LISD's ability to deliver Multics CPUs