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Nuclear Tests	Year	Treaties
	2008	20 May: so far 178 of 193 States have signed the CTBT, 144 States have ratified. The Signature and Ratification of 44 States is required for Treaty to enter into force. So far 41 of these States have signed the CTBT, 35 States have ratified.
	2007	31 December: 244 IMS stations of 321 have already been build, 214 have been certified. Ten of 16 radionuclide laboratories have been certified.
9 October 2006: North Korea conducts a nuclear test near P'onggyeat.	2006	31 December: 244 IMS stations of 321 have already been build, 184 have been certified. Nine of 16 radionuclide laboratories have been certified.
10 February: North Korea announces to have nuclear weapons.	2005	31 December: 219 IMS stations of 321 have already been build, 156 have been certified. Six of 16 radionuclide laboratories have been certified.
	2004	31 December: 204 IMS stations of 321 have already been build, 109 have been certified. Five of 16 radionuclide laboratories have been certified.
	2003	31 December: 150 IMS stations of 321 have already been build, 83 have been certified.Three of 16 radionuclide laboratories have been certified. 22 August: the swiss station DAVOX was certified as the 9th of 120 auxiliary seismic stations of the international monitoring system (IMS). 30 April: with Mauretania the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty reaches 100 ratifications.
India conducts a series of 5 nuclear explosions on 11 and 13 May 1998, at Pokaran in the Rajasthan Desert. Pakistan conducts a series of 6 nuclear explosions on 28 and 30 May 1998 in Beluchistan.	1998
France and China conduct their last nuclear explosive tests.	1996	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba). On 24 September 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT: Treaty text, CTBTO) is opened for signature in New York; 71 States, including the five nuclear-weapon States, sign the Treaty on that day.
	1995	Southest Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Bangkok).
United States conduct its last nuclear explosive test.	1992
United Kindom conducts its last nuclear explosive test.	1991
Soviet Unions conducts its last nuclear explosive test.	1990
	1985	South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga).
	1976	Treaty on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, PNE), limiting the yield of individual nuclear explosions conducted outside nuclear-weapon test sites to 150 kilotons, signed by the Soviet Union and the United States.
India conducts a nuclear explosion at Pokaran in the Rajasthan Desert and asserts that it was for "peaceful" purposes.	1974	Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Weapon Tests (Treshold Test-Ban Treaty, TTBT), limiting the yield of such tests to 150 kilotons, signed by the Soviet Union and United States.
	1968	Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), obligating non-nuclear-weapon States parties not to possess, manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and nuclear weapon States parties not to transfer nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and committing them to the goal of nuclear disarmament.
	1967	Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlateloco).
China conducts its first nuclear explosive test at Lop Nor, Xinjiang.	1964
	1963	Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), banning nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, outerspace and under water, but not underground, signed on 5 August by the United Kindom, the Soviet Union and the United States.
France conducts its first nuclear explosive test near Reggane in the Sahara Desert.	1960
	1959	Antartic Treaty, providing for the demilitarization and denuclearisation of the Antartic continent.
United Kingdom conducts its first nuclear explosive test at the Monte Bello Islands off the Australian coast.	1952
Soviet Union conducts its first nuclear explosive test near Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.	1949
First nuclear explosive test conducted by the United States at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July. In August, two atom bombs are exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.	1945