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Barbados Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
From Tuesday, January 15, 2008 issue.
The island nation of Barbados yesterday signed and ratified the international treaty banning test explosions of nuclear weapons (see GSN, Nov. 27, 2007). Barbados is the 142nd nation to fully join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The pact will not enter into force until it is ratified by all 44 “Annex 2” nations — those states that possessed nuclear power or research reactors while the treaty was being negotiated in 1996. Ten of the 44 nations have yet to ratify the treaty — China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and the United States (Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization release, Jan. 15).
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