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Comprehensive (nuclear) Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

* The CTBT bans "all nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion" and establishes an extensive International Monitoring System and allows for short-notice on-site inspections.

* The CTBT was negotiated in Geneva by the Conference on Disarmament and was adopted by the General Assembly as a resolution (A/RES/50/245) on 10 September 1996 and opened for signature in September 1996.

* Under the terms of the treaty, all forty-four countries with nuclear power plants must sign and ratify before it becomes legally binding, or "enters into force" (EIF).

* The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty has been signed by 177 countries and ratified by 138. Out of the 44 Annex II States (nuclear capable states whose ratification is necessary for the EIF), 38 have ratified. Three have not even signed. .

* Article XIV of the CTBT allows for a special conference on accelerating Entry-Into-Force if the treaty has not yet entered-into-force. The conference does not have the power to amend the treaty.

* In October 1999, the first such Conference on Facilitating the Entry-Into-Force of the CTBT was held in Vienna. Ninety-two states unanimously adopted a Final Declaration at that meeting hearing over fifty statements examining measures consistent with international law to accelerate the Treaty's ratification.

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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)