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Article: Not for all: test ban. (the United Nations Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty for nuclear weapons still faces obstacles for ratification even though the major nuclear powers support it)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 14, 1996
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THE end of nuclear weapons may be far off, but perhaps the end of nuclear tests is nigh. Some 51 years after the first nuclear bomb was detonated experimentally over the New Mexico desert, on September 10th the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to open for signature a treaty banning all further explosive nuclear tests (long since banned in the atmosphere, under water and in space, but not until now underground). Led by Bill Clinton, world leaders are expected to start queuing up to sign at the UN later this month. Yet the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty may never come fully into force.
The treaty has the backing of the United States, Russia, Britain, ...