UNEP/GC.16/Inf.4 Page 55 TREATY BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE, IN OUTER SPACE AND UNDER WATER Objectives To obtain an agreement on general and complete disarmament under strict international control in accordance with the objectives of the United Nations; to put an end to the armaments race and eliminate incentives to the production and testing of all kinds of weapons, including nuclear weapons. Provisions Parties to undertake to prohibit, prevent and not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion, or any other nuclear explosion, at any place under its jurisdiction or control: (a) In the atmosphere, beyond its limits, including outer space, or under water, including territorial waters or high seas; or (b) In any other environment if such explosion causes radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the State under whose jurisdiction or control such explosion is conducted. Membership Open to all States. Date of adoption 5. 8.1963 Place of adoption Moscow Date of entry into force 10.10.1963 Languages English, Russian Depositaries Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America Parties and dates of entry into force Afghanistan 12. 3.1964 Argentina 14.11.1986 Australia 12.11.1963 Austria 17. 7.1964 Bahamas 10. 7.1973 Bangladesh 11. 1.1985 Belgium 1. 3.1966 Benin 15.12.1964 Bhutan 8. 6.1978 Bolivia 4. 8.1965 Botswana 5. 1.1968 Brazil 15.12.1964 Bulgaria 13.11.1963 Burma 15.11.1963 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 16.12.1963 UNEP/GC.16/Inf.4 Page 56 Canada 28. 1.1964 Cape Verde 24.10.1979 Central African Republic 22.12.1964 Chad 1. 3.1965 Chile 6.10.1965 China (Taiwan) 18. 5.1964 Colombia 17.10.1985 Costa Rica 10. 7.1967 Cyprus 15. 4.1965 Czechoslovakia 14.10.1963 Democratic Yemen 1. 6.1979 Denmark 15. 1.1964 Dominican Republic 18. 6.1964 Ecuador 8. 5.1964 Egypt 10. 1.1964 El Salvador 3.12.1964 Fiji 10.10.1970 Finland 9. 1.1964 Gabon 20. 2.1964 Gambia 6. 5.1965 Germany, Democratic Republic 30.12.1963 Germany, Federal Republic of 1.12.1964 Ghana 27.11.1963 Greece 18.12.1963 Guatemala 6. 1.1964 Guinea-Bissau 20. 8.1976 Honduras 2.10.1964 Hungary 21.10.1963 Iceland 29. 4.1964 India 10.10.1963 Indonesia 20.10.1964 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5. 5.1964 Iraq 30.11.1964 Ireland 18.12.1963 Israel 15. 1.1964 Italy 10.12.1964 Ivory Coast 5. 2.1965 Japan 15. 6.1964 Jordan 29. 5.1964 Kenya 10. 6.1965 Kuwait 20. 5.1965 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10. 2.1965 Lebanon 20. 5.1965 Liberia 22. 5.1964 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 15. 7.1968 Luxembourg 10. 2.1965 Madagascar 15. 3.1965 Malawi 7. 1.1965 Malaysia 15. 7.1964 Malta 1.12.1964 Mauritania 6. 4.1964 Mauritius 12. 3.1968 Mexico 27.12.1963 Mongolia 1.11.1963 Morocco 1. 2.1966 Nepal 7.10.1964 UNEP/GC.16/Inf.4 Page 57 Netherlands* 14. 9.1964 New Zealand 10.10.1963 Nicaragua 26. 1.1965 Niger 6. 7.1964 Nigeria 17. 2.1967 Norway 21.11.1963 Pakistan 3. 3.1988 Panama 24. 2.1966 Papua New Guinea 27.10.1980 Peru 20. 7.1964 Philippines 10.11.1965 Poland 14.10.1963 Republic of Korea 24. 7.1964 Romania 12.12.1963 Rwanda 22.10.1963 Samoa 19. 1.1965 San Marino 3. 7.1964 Senegal 6. 5.1964 Seychelles 12. 3.1985 Sierra Leone 21. 2.1964 Singapore 12. 7.1968 South Africa 10.10.1963 Spain 17.12.1964 Sri Lanka 13. 2.1964 Sudan 4. 3.1966 Swaziland 29. 5.1969 Sweden 9.12.1963 Switzerland 16. 1.1964 Syrian Arab Republic 1. 6.1964 Thailand 15.11.1963 Togo 7.12.1964 Tonga 4. 6.1970 Trinidad and Tobago 16. 7.1964 Tunisia 26. 5.1965 Turkey 8. 7.1965 Uganda 24. 3.1964 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 30.12.1963 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 10.10.1963 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 10.10.1963 United Republic of Tanzania 6. 2.1964 United States of America 10.10.1963 Uruguay 25. 2.1969 Venezuela 3. 3.1965 Yugoslavia 15. 1.1964 Zaire 28.10.1965 Zambia 8. 2.1965 Extended to the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname. .