[Imc-summaries] The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Why It Is Important

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is fruit of a decades long search for an agreement to end the development of new nuclear weapons and to prevent the proliferation of them to countries that don’t possess them. The CTBT has been signed by the five acknowledged nuclear states and was passed in the United Nations General Assembly by a vote of 158-3.

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