jul 1, 1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified

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In August 1945 the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first-ever real-world use of this level of weapon. In response, the world began trying to catch up to America's new power. Thus, the nuclear arms race began. For the next several decades all of the great powers of the world built and experimentally tested nuclear-level weapons to try and become the world's atomic superiority. However, as the tests of these weapons continued scientists began to discover the large-scale impacts of nuclear and atomic detonations on people and the environment. Another problem with the arms race in the Cold War was the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war with the building of these weapons. So, In response to these two factors under JFK in 1963 a treaty was proposed approved, and signed by Great Britain and the Soviet Union. This treaty said that nuclear weapons could no longer be tested in outer space, in the atmosphere, or underwater. This treaty helped slow the invention of new and more powerful bombs and helped keep the impact of nuclear detonations to a minimum.

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