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The Purpose of Nuclear Test Bans

Category: nuclear weapons

New developments in nuclear testing simulations may allow the US to sidestep current limits on nuclear testing imposed by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaties. However, although limiting nuclear testing is alone a means in itself, the fundamental purpose of the various Nuclear Test Ban Treaties was to encourage nuclear disarmament, in hopes of opening the door to a more peaceful and reasonable society.

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Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as a Science Policy Success

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One success of science influencing policy in a good way that might not be so obvious was the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which was largely influenced by the work of one scientist, Linus Pauling.

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