History of the IAEA

Chronology of Key Dates & Developments

As the IAEA approaches its 50^th anniversary in 2007, new challenges and opportunities confront the world´s nuclear development. The Agency is moving to meet and respond to them, as it has throughout its nearly five decades of international service.

A number of chronologies have been compiled to highlight key dates and developments along the path of nuclear development and the IAEA´s evolution. They include a chronology covering the period 1945 to 1997, and more recent timelines highlighting the developments related to the IAEA's work on key verification issues.

Key Dates & Historical Developments, The IAEA Turns 40, by the IAEA Division of Public Information (full document in pdf)

The IAEA in Iraq, 1991 to 2002, by the IAEA´s Iraq Nuclear Verification Office (INVO)

IAEA & Iraq Timeline, the last round of nuclear inspections, by the IAEA Division of Public Information

IAEA & North Korea Timeline, highlights of key events from 2002, by the IAEA Division of Public Information

IAEA Safeguards in Iran, highlights from September 2002, by the IAEA Division of Public Information

For narrative accounts of the IAEA´s first four decades, see "Then & Now", the IAEA Bulletin special edition, and The First Forty Years, a book on the Agency´s history.