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TREATY BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE,
IN OUTER SPACE AND UNDER WATER
Objectives
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To obtain an agreement on general and complete disarmament under
strict international control in accordance with the objectives of the
United Nations; to put an end to the armaments race and eliminate
incentives to the production and testing of all kinds of weapons,
including nuclear weapons.
Summary of provisions
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Parties to undertake to prohibit, prevent and not to carry out any
nuclear weapon test explosion, or any other nuclear explosion, at any
place under its jurisdiction or control:
(a) In the atmosphere, beyond its limits, including outer space,
or under water, including territorial waters or high seas; or
(b) In any other environment if such explosion causes radioactive
debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the State under
whose jurisdiction or control such explosion is conducted.
Membership
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Open to all States.
Date of adoption 5. 8.1963
Place of adoption Moscow, Russian Federation
Date of entry into force 10.10.1963
Languages English, Russian
Depositaries Russian Federation,
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland,
United States of America
Participant Signature Ratification
Accession (Ac)
Succession (S)
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Afghanistan 8. 8.1963 12. 3.1964
Algeria 14. 8.1963
Antigua and Barbuda 26. 1.1989 (S)
Argentina 9. 8.1963 14.11.1986
Australia 8. 8.1963 12.11.1963
Austria 12. 9.1963 17. 7.1964
Bahamas 11. 8.1976 (S)
Bangladesh 13. 3.1985 (Ac)
Belgium 8. 8.1963 1. 3.1966
Benin 3. 9.1963 22. 4.1965
Bolivia 21. 8.1963 25. 1.1966
Botswana 14. 2.1968 (S)
Brazil 8. 8.1963 4. 3.1965
Bulgaria 8. 8.1963 2.12.1963
Burma 14. 8.1963 15.11.1963
Cameroon 6. 9.1963
Canada 8. 8.1963 28. 1.1964
Central African
Republic 24. 8.1965 (Ac)
Chad
Chile 9. 8.1963 6.10.1965
Colombia 30. 8.1963 17.10.1985
Costa Rica 9. 8.1963
Cyprus 8. 8.1963 15. 4.1965
Czechoslovakia 3. 8.1963 14.10.1963
Denmark 9. 8.1963 15. 1.1964
Dominican Republic 17. 9.1963 18. 6.1964
Ecuador 1.10.1963 8. 5.1964
Egypt 8. 8.1963 10. 1.1964
El Salvador 22. 8.1963 7.12.1964
Ethiopia 9. 8.1963
Fiji 14. 8.1972 (S)
Finland 8. 8.1963 9. 1.1964
Gabon 4. 3.1964
Gambia 6. 5.1965 (S)
Germany 19. 8.1963 1.12.1964
Ghana 4. 9.1963 27.11.1963
Greece 9. 8.1963 18.12.1963
Honduras 15. 8.1963 2.12.1964
Hungary 8. 8.1963 21.10.1963
Iceland 12. 8.1963 29. 4.1964
India 8. 8.1963 10.10.1963
Indonesia 23. 8.1963 8. 5.1964
Iran, Islamic
Republic of 8. 8.1963 5. 5.1964
Iraq 13. 8.1963 30.11.1964
Ireland 8. 8.1963 18.12.1963
Israel 8. 8.1963 15. 1.1964
Italy 8. 8.1963 10.12.1964
Jamaica 13. 8.1963 22.11.1991
Japan 14. 8.1963 15. 6.1964
Jordan 12. 8.1963 29. 5.1964
Kenya 10. 6.1965 (Ac)
Korea, Republic of 30. 8.1963 24. 7.1964
Kuwait 20. 8.1963 21. 5.1965
Lao People's
Democratic Republic 12. 8.1963 10. 2.1965
Lebanon 13. 8.1963 20. 5.1965
Liberia 16. 8.1963 22. 5.1964
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 9. 8.1963 15. 7.1968
Luxembourg 13. 8.1963 10. 2.1965
Malawi 7. 1.1965 (S)
Malaysia 12. 8.1963 16. 7.1964
Mali 23. 8.1963
Malta 1.12.1964 (S)
Mauritania 17. 9.1963 15. 4.1964
Mauritius 12. 5.1969 (S)
Mexico 8. 8.1963 27.12.1963
Mongolia 8. 8.1963 7.11.1963
Morocco 30. 8.1963 1. 2.1966
Nepal 26. 8.1963 7.10.1964
Netherlands* 9. 8.1963 14. 9.1964
New Zealand 8. 8.1963 10.10.1963
Nicaragua 13. 8.1963 26. 1.1965
Niger 24. 9.1963 6. 7.1964
Nigeria 2. 9.1963 17. 2.1967
Norway 9. 8.1963 21.11.1963
Pakistan 14. 8.1963 3. 3.1988
Papua New Guinea 27.10.1980 (S)
Paraguay 15. 8.1963
Peru 23. 8.1963 4. 8.1964
Philippines 8. 8.1963 10.11.1965
Poland 8. 8.1963 14.10.1963
Portugal 9.10.1963
Romania 8. 8.1963 12.12.1963
Russian Federation 5. 8.1963 10.10.1963
Rwanda 22.10.1963 (Ac)
San Marino 20. 9.1963 3. 7.1964
Senegal 23. 9.1963 6. 5.1964
Seychelles 12. 3.1985 (Ac)
Sierra Leone 4. 9.1963 21. 2.1964
Singapore 23. 7.1968 (S)
Slovenia 7. 4.1992 (S)
South Africa 10.10.1963 (Ac)
Spain 14. 8.1963 17.12.1964
Sri Lanka 22. 8.1963 13. 2.1964
Sudan 9. 8.1963 4. 3.1966
Swaziland 29. 5.1969 (Ac)
Sweden 12. 8.1963 9.12.1963
Switzerland 26. 8.1963 16. 1.1964
Syrian Arab Republic 13. 8.1963 1. 6.1964
Thailand 8. 8.1963 15.11.1963
Tonga 7. 7.1971 (S)
Trinidad and Tobago 12. 8.1963 16. 7.1964
Tunisia 12. 8.1963 26. 5.1965
Turkey 9. 8.1963 8. 7.1965
Uganda 29. 8.1963 24. 3.1964
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland 5. 8.1963 10.10.1963
United Republic of
Tanzania 16. 9.1963 6. 2.1964
United States of
America 5. 8.1963 10.10.1963
Uruguay 27. 9.1963 25. 2.1969
Venezuela 20. 8.1963 3. 3.1965
Western Samoa 5. 9.1963 19. 1.1965
Yugoslavia 8. 8.1963 15. 1.1964
Zaire 9. 8.1963
Zambia 3. 2.1965 (S)
* Extended to the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname.
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