Sentences with phrase «weapons test ban»

The objective being to not end up in an verification deadlock a la nuclear weapons test bans.

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But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

It even tested nuclear bombs in space before orbital weapons of mass destruction were banned through the United Nations» Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

But behind the scenes, another crisis is unfolding: the first ever test of whether the international treaty banning these weapons can be used in a world for which it wasn't designed.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Now that the global nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva are getting down to serious business and a ban could be achieved by March 1995, it looks increasingly likely that Britain's nuclear weapons designers will never be able to test their weapons again.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

This pulse stopped with the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground tests of nuclear weapons, and the unstable carbon - 14 isotopes have steadily decayed.

However in the 50's we banned atmospheric testing of thermonuclear weapons.

He negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets which he was unable to sign because Francis Gary Powers was shot down and the Soviets grandstanded for several months before getting to the banning of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.