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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
test ban
noun
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▪ A test ban is the least of the proliferators' worries.
▪ A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race.
▪ But it has refused to sign up to the comprehensive test ban treaty.
▪ However, the point is that if there were a complete test ban, there would be no nuclear tests allowed.
▪ I am increasingly convinced that a comprehensive test ban would be a big step to take in curbing proliferation.
▪ Nuclear disarmers are right in saying that a test ban would stop weapons builders trying out new and fancier designs.
▪ Or that a comprehensive test ban might not be possible - even desirable - at some point in the future.
WordNet
test ban

n. a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons

Usage examples of "test ban".

He won a second Nobel Prize, this one in peace, for his work on the nuclear test ban, becoming the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

Yeltsin had suggested the summit to highlight our commitment to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, START I and START II, and our joint efforts to secure and destroy nuclear weapons and materials.

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China&hellip.

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China….

Atom Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, rejected by France and China.

Unlike Pakistan and India, Bangladesh was a non-nuclear nation that had ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which was more than could be said for the United States.

He would never know of the effect the Society had on Dewey during the Korean crisis, never know of the Societys successful campaign for the test ban treaty, and never learn that thanks in part to the Society and its allies, a treaty would be signed by the great powers that would reduce the number of atomic bombs year by year, until there were none left.

In fact bursts of gamma rays from space have been detected by satellites originally constructed to look for violations of the Test Ban Treaty.

Nuclear power is the key to space, but it was ruled out for forty years by the 1963 Test Ban Treaty.

However, the effort was abandoned in 1965, a casualty of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

All of this is in direct violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

So, like diplomats negotiating a nuclear test ban treaty, we felt the boy out as delicately as we could and then worked our behavior and our words in such a way that he felt he was involved in our decision.

Since he couldn't make them for real anymore, not even underground since the Comprehensive Test Ban went into effect, he figured simulation was the next best thing.

But the whole project was grounded by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and in any case it will be quite a long time before NASA, or anybody else, is thinking on such a grandiose scale.