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  2. Factbox-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, and when? - AOL

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    In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the...

  3. Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Wikipedia

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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 all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.

  4. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty - Wikipedia

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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 civilian and military purposes, in all environments.

  5. Nondestructive testing - Wikipedia

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    X-ray vault used in Radiography. Nondestructive testing (NDT) is any of a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and technology industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.

  6. VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia's envoy to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said on Friday that Moscow will revoke its ratification of the pact, a move that ...

  7. France and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    France did not sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which gave it the option to conduct further nuclear tests until it signed and ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996 and 1998 respectively.

  8. Air Force Technical Applications Center - Wikipedia

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    This treaty prohibits nuclear testing above the Earth's surface and prohibits the venting of nuclear debris or radiation from tests into the atmosphere outside the country's national borders. AFTAC also monitors the Threshold Test Ban Treaty of 1974 and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty of 1976. The 1974 treaty limits the size of ...

  9. Test Ban Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The Partial Test Ban Treaty, adopted in 1963, signed by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, prohibited all testing except underground tests.

  10. Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994

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    Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to stop female foeticides and arrest the declining sex ratio in India. The act banned prenatal sex determination.

  11. Atomic Weapons Establishment - Wikipedia

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    The Atomic Weapons Establishment ( AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment ( AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at ...