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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.
On August 5, 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) was opened for signature. The principal state authors (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) signed the treaty that day. The PTBT came into force and closed for signature on October 10, 1963 with the ratification by the three principal states. Since then, states that ...
A variety of treaties and agreements have been enacted to regulate the use, development and possession of various types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Treaties may regulate weapons use under the customs of war (Hague Conventions, Geneva Protocol), ban specific types of weapons (Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention), limit weapons research (Partial Test Ban Treaty ...
4: 4: 4: small to 2 2: Aka Operation Dominic II. Test of small tactical warheads, including the man-portable "Davy Crockett". Last atmospheric test series. The Army's part of Sunbeam was Operation Ivy Flats. Dominic: 1962–1963 31: 31: 31: 2 to 9,960 34,640 "Frigate Bird" was the only operational test of a missile "mated" with a live warhead.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, both the US and the USSR detonated several high-altitude nuclear explosions as a form of saber rattling. The worst effects of a Soviet high-altitude test occurred on 22 October 1962, in the Soviet Project K nuclear tests (ABM System A proof tests) when a 300 kt missile-warhead detonated near ...
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) August 5, 1963: October 10, 1963: yes Ban on all but underground testing. Outer Space Treaty: January 27, 1967: October 10, 1967: yes Bans testing on the moon and other celestial bodies. Treaty of Tlatelolco: February 14, 1967: April 22, 1968: yes Bans testing in South America and the Caribbean Sea Islands.
[7] [8] In 1963, many countries ratified the Partial Test Ban Treaty which prohibited atmospheric nuclear testing. [9] Some local opposition to nuclear power emerged in the early 1960s, [10] and in the late 1960s some members of the scientific community began to express their concerns. [11]
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 Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, prohibited all testing except underground tests; Threshold Test Ban Treaty, adopted in 1974 between the United States and Soviet Union ...