detailing how the arrangement of a zone of disarmament would work. Main Clauses The zone was defined as West Germany, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, would ban the production and storage of nuclear weapons as well as the use of such weapons in the zone. Commits the four powers (France, UK, US, USSR) to not bring nuclear weapons into the zone or use nuclear weapons against the countries inhabiting the zone; prohibits all countries who have military forces in the zone from possessing weapons. Countries included in the zone would set up a control machinery to maintain the nuclear weapons ban including air and ground checks. An international treaty would be the best way to commit states to the plan, however, if this is not possible multilateral or unilateral declarations between countries in the zone and the four powers are suggested. Responses to the Rapacki Plan After the Rapacki plan was drafted by Foreign Minister Rapacki, Poland sought approval from its own allies in Eastern Europe (especially the Soviet Union) before presenting the plan to the United Nations, where both the United States and West Germany would decide on it. Despite the diplomacy of Adam Rapacki, the plan was ultimately rejected. Czechoslovakia In October 1957, the Czech government came out in favor of the plan with Vaclav David, the foreign minister, giving a speech about the state’s interest in participating in a nuclear-free zone and subsequently added Czechoslovakia to the list of states participating in the Rapacki Plan. The speech also outlined how the Polish proposal was a constructive step towards disarmament of Central Europe more broadly. Soviet Union Soviet response to the plan was generally favorable from the beginning, especially when the plan aided in the Soviet’s aims and problems. In 1957, the Soviet Union saw the plan as a means of tackling two of its most pressing issues. First, preventing West Germany from being able to arm itself with nuclear armaments. Second, it re-earned its own prestige after its aggressive suppression of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, which after a United Nations investigation, concluded that Soviet involvement violated the human rights of the Hungarian people. On December 21, 1957, the Supreme Soviet passed a 17 point resolution that included a pact of non-aggression between Warsaw Pact states along with the Rapacki Plan. Throughout 1957-58, the Soviet Union thoroughly supported the plan. A meeting was set up between Adam