abstract:Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the 20th century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them.
Theundisputedlinkbetween the testsand a radioactiveelementinbabyteeth provided much of the impetus for the 1963 test Ban Treaty, whichoutlawedabove-groundnuclearweapons-testing.
The project -- which lists among its primary objectives the elimination of nuclearweapons, the elimination of nuclearweaponstesting, and the creation of a new "architecture" for global security -- features among its advisors such "national security experts" as former DemocraticSenator Dick Clark, former Democratic Representative Mel Levine and former liberal RepublicanCharles Mathias.