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INTERNATIONAL DAY
AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTS |
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Date-wise Events |
August 29 - Every
Year |
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Description |
- It calls for increasing awareness about the effects of
nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear
explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the
means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.
- The resolution was initiated by Kazakhstan together with
several sponsors and cosponsors to commemorate the closure
of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on August 29, 1991.
- Following the establishment of the International Day
against Nuclear Tests, 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
- Incidentally, on 29 August 1949, the
Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, “RDS-1”.
This test marked the beginning of the “Cold War”
nuclear arms race between the two superpowers.
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