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International Day against Nuclear Tests – Aug 29
August 31 , 2022
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- In May 2010, all state parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons committed themselves to "achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons".
- The resolution was initiated by Kazakhstan to commemorate the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on August 29, 1991.
- The International Day for the Total Elimination of nuclear weapons was observed for the first time in September 2014.
- The international instrument to put an end to all forms of nuclear testing is the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
- Unfortunately, this has yet to enter into force.
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