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Article: Nuclear nerves put to the test
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1994
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Nearly 50 years after scores of thousands of people in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki were killed by the first wartime nuclear explosions,
the world is on the verge of banning all nuclear weapons tests for
ever. In Geneva tomorrow representatives of 39 nations will begin
negotiations for a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT).
Not before time. The treaty banning nuclear tests in the
atmosphere was negotiated in 1963. It was to have been
comprehensive, but was cut back to a partial test ban, to the
dismay of many states which did not possess nuclear weapons.
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear explosions, negotiated within
the next year, would tell the world that the states with such
weapons are ...