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    The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), formally known as the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, prohibited...
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    The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both...
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    explosion treaties, notably the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. These treaties were proposed in response to...
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  • by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline;...
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    prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. On August 5, 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) was opened for signature. The...
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    The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively...
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    while having a means of nuclear deterrence under sovereign control. France did not sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which gave it the option...
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    Weapons Convention), limit weapons research (Partial Test Ban Treaty, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty), limit allowable weapons stockpiles and delivery...
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    The Partial Test Ban Treaty was passed in October 1963, ending atmospheric and exoatmospheric nuclear tests. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 banned the...
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    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) are the states that have signed and ratified the international agreement banning all nuclear explosions in...
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    acceptance of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, all testing was relegated underground, in order to prevent the dispersion of nuclear fallout. By 1998...
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  • by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline;...
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    by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline;...
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    escalating nuclear arms race." In the speech, Kennedy announced his agreement to negotiations "toward early agreement on a comprehensive test ban treaty" (which...
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  • Disarmament Agency. In October, 1963, he signed into law the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was accepted by Moscow and London. Kennedy's 1962 foreign...
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    tests, and misfires of a device which was subsequently fired successfully. Number of tests which would have been in violation of the Partial Test Ban...
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    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty List of parties to the Ottawa Treaty List of parties to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty List of parties to the Treaty on...
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  • carried various sensors designed to detect nuclear explosions that contravened the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In addition to being able to detect gamma...
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    11 mSv/yr above natural levels in 1963, the year that the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was enacted. Since then, by about 2008, anthropogenic background...
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  • Three test ban treaties aimed at prohibiting most nuclear weapons testing have been adopted: The Partial Test Ban Treaty, adopted in 1963, signed by the...
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    The 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banned atmospheric testing, and no site was located at the Maralinga Range for underground testing; the nearest...
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    Treaty List of parties to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty List of parties to weapons of mass destruction treaties United Nations non-member observer...
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    the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, while safety tests are. The table in this section summarizes all worldwide nuclear testing (including the two...
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    with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty and continuing through the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, there have been many treaties to limit or reduce...
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    and in August 1963 was the United Kingdom's signatory to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In October 1963 Macmillan was taken ill and resigned as prime...
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    Joseph Rotblat (category British anti–nuclear weapons activists)
    atomic bomb. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955...
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  • by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline;...
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  • by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline;...
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    Operation Sunbeam (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
    1 test of the Davy Crockett, all US nuclear tests on the Test Site have been carried out underground in accordance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty. The...
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  • tests, and misfires of a device which was subsequently fired successfully. Number of tests which would have been in violation of the Partial Test Ban...
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