Rapacki Plan

British

/ raˈpatski /

noun

the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957

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Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany.

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