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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

1996 treaty banning all nuclear weapons testing

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
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The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996, but has not entered into force, as it has not been ratified by all the required states. The treaty will establish the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization to oversee monitoring, which is currently done by a Preparatory Commission.

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The public source identifies “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” as 1996 treaty banning all nuclear weapons testing. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Comprehensive, Nuclear-Test-Ban and Treaty.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Comprehensive, Nuclear-Test-Ban and Treaty providing the first useful test.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.