Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2021
Since July 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear explosive devices have been detonated in tests in more than 60 different locations. The total yield of nuclear tests conducted from 1945 to 1995 is equivalent to 34,000 Hiroshima-size bombs. Only North Korea has test-detonated nuclear weapons this century. While the 1963 Partial Test-Ban Treaty remains in force the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has not entered into force. The chapter explains why and what customary rules restrain nuclear testing today.
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