Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty bans all tests of Nuclear weapons except for tests done underground. It was first meant to ban all tests, but it was changed because of Soviet concerns over methods of detecting underground nuclear tests. The reason for this treaty is because of public fear over the amount of nuclear testing and the fallout that would occur. The treaty was also meant to slow the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Castle Bravo fallout plume
The Ivy Mike test of 1952, an early thermonuclear detonation
Eisenhower and Strauss discuss Operation Castle, 1954
Macmillan (second from left) with Eisenhower in March 1957
US test detonation (part of Operation Hardtack II) conducted shortly before the start of the moratorium in 1958
Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna
Kennedy at American University
Kennedy announces the agreement on 26 July 1963
Kennedy signs the PTBT on 7 October 1963 before W. Averell Harriman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk, and others
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