In November 1959 the then Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Frank Aiken, a man who had seen the devastation of war first hand in Ireland in the War of Independence and the Civil War, first proposed an international agreement to halt the increase in the number of nations with nuclear weapons, with the ultimate goal of achieving eventual complete disarmament. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the proposal in Resolution 1380 (XIV) which suggested:

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