Efforts to Stop Testing and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
In 1968, the US and Soviet Union jointly proposed
a treaty that said, "We
want to avoid increasing the number of countries with nuclear weapons."
In 1996, they signed a treaty that said, "Let's stop all tests that
involve nuclear explosions." This treaty was the first agreement
that prohibited even underground tests. However, this treaty is still
not in effect because certain key countries have not signed it.
Despite these efforts to ban testing and eliminate nuclear weapons,
tens of thousands of nuclear weapons remain, and some countries are still
developing new nuclear weapons.
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