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Trinity test 2000+ nuclear explosions Over 60 nuclear test sites 15 kt 50.000 kt Tsar Bomba http://youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c Scale comparison U.S. B83 bomb Chinese DF-5A warhead Soviet Tzar Bomba 1200 kt 4,5 mt 50 mt Hiroshima

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Trinity test

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2000+ nuclear explosions

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Over 60 nuclear test sites

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15 kt 50.000 kt Tsar Bomba

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c

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Scale comparison

Hiroshima

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U.S. B83 bomb

1200 kt

Soviet Tzar Bomba

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Chinese DF-5A warhead

4,5 mt

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4630 kg 23 kg

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W87 warhead – 300 kt

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Thermonuclear test, French 'Licorne„, Mururoa Atoll, 1970, 914 kilotons

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Underwater test U.S. 'Hardtack Umbrella' Eniwetok Atoll 1958 8 kilotons

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Baneberry, Underground explosion Nevada Test Site 1 9 7 0

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Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Sedan Explosion Nevada Test Site

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Hiroshima / Nagasaki

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Effects of Radiation

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Effects of Radiation

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“The total yield of all nuclear tests conducted between 1945 and 1980 is estimated to 510 megatons (mt). Atmospheric tests alone accounted for 428 mt, equivalent to over 29,000 Hiroshima size bombs.”

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“Radiation and radioactive materials from atmospheric testing taken in by people up until the year 2000 would cause 430,000 cancer deaths”

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Nuclear Tests 1945 - today

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„Castle Bravo‟, Bikini Atoll, 1954, 15 megatons

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Jawaharlal Nehru 1954 Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proposes a “standstill agreement” on testing

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Peace movement 1958 March from Aldermaston to London

Michael Foote (centre) leads an anniversary march from Aldermaston to London

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Peace movement 1982 Manhattan, New York March against nuclear arms

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Cuban missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis October 1962

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1963: the Partial Test Ban Treaty

President Kennedy ratifies the PTBT, 7 October 1963.

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“to seek to achieve the discontinuance of all test explosions

  • f nuclear weapons for all time”

(NPT, 1968)

preamble of the NPT:

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Atmospheric and Underground Nuclear Testing

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Thank You!