Nanking Treaty

At the height of the Cold War, the existence of Out-Of-Place-Artifact containment facilities under the control of the secretive Order of Ouroboros became known to both sides of the conflict. National governments attempted through various means to seize control of these facilities and of the advanced technologies or arcane text contained within, in the hope of tipping the balance of the Cold War onto their side.

These attempts would culminate in the Nanking Incident of 1975, in which agents of the British Military Intelligence Section 13, a.k.a. MI13, (Occult CounterIntelligence) would liberate the recently developed Wave Motion Cannon from the Chinese occupied Warehouse 61--during the incident, the weapon was activated and was almost used against the city of Nanking itself.

The UN Security Council would follow the recommendation of the UN Evolutionary Council and call for a ban against the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction using technology gleaned from Anachronistic and/or Alien origin.

Additionally, the treaty was meant to include a clause banning any attempts to assimilate the Warehouse's or the Order of Ouroboros, but this was vetoed by the United States.