Remember, in 1995, Germany's lack of sympathy when France resumed nuclear tests in the Pacific?
In 1998, India's nuclear tests were code-named "Operation Shakti, " the Sanskrit word for strength.
As you know, the United States has not conducted any nuclear tests since 1992.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister, has been coming under increasing pressure to respond to India's nuclear tests.
The UN Security Council banned North Korea from missile tests after nuclear tests conducted in 2006 and 2009.
The US imposed curbs on nuclear technology transfers to India in the wake of India's nuclear tests in 1998.
The U.S. believes sub-critical experiments are permitted but hydro-nuclear tests are not.
The BBC News Website invited comments in its 'Talking Point' section by asking the question: 'Should India have carried out nuclear tests'.
The UN resolution, passed on Tuesday, expanded existing sanctions against Pyongyang that were imposed after its previous nuclear tests and rocket launches.
' The recent nuclear tests in India and Pakistan were also 'unlikely.
The theory is that by so doing, other nations will be deterred from conducting nuclear tests or otherwise embarking upon nuclear weapons programs.
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Earlier he had declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, and said India was willing to convert this into a binding commitment through negotiations.
The United States is worried enough about fundamentalism in the army to be considering resumption of a training programme suspended after the nuclear tests.
France's continuing nuclear tests in the South Pacific have turned the international spotlight, if only briefly, on Tahiti and the other islands in French Polynesia.
In 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
Servicemen who took part in British nuclear tests in the Pacific during the 1950s and 1960s have also urged the creation of a separate medal.
South Korea's envoy to the UN, Kim Sook, described the North's nuclear tests as "grave threat to the peace" on the Korean peninsula and the wider region.
Second, they expressed their "abhorrence" of economic sanctions - understood but not spelled out - like the ones levied against India and Pakistan for their nuclear tests.
We were not particularly close during the Cold War, and when we did begin to reengage, those relationships were interrupted following nuclear tests in the last 1990s.
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The decision to carry out nuclear tests and the consequent economic sanctions by the United States have brought home to Pakistanis just how serious is their plight.
The United States has conducted more nuclear tests than the rest of the world combined and has thousands of nuclear warheads loaded on every conceivable delivery system.
Nuclear tests carried out by India in May 1998 and similar tests by Pakistan just weeks later provoked international condemnation and concern over the stability of the region.
The Central Intelligence Agency, apparently stung by its failure to predict India's nuclear tests, announced that it was recruiting the largest number of new spies in its history.
But the treaty does not even define prescribed nuclear tests.
United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 to 31 December 1992.
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Since the nuclear tests, Kashmir has gained more international attention.
Other bankers in Karachi say millions of dollars left Pakistan in the days before last year's nuclear tests, which led to sanctions and a slide in the rupee's value.
The US, Japan and South Korea are seeking a response in the UN Security Council, which banned North Korea from missile tests after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
Harsh words, including "betrayal, " were directed behind closed doors at Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana, representing the European Union, over France's decision to resume nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
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