INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTS

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• On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests by adopting resolution 64/35. 2010 marked the inaugural commemoration of the International Day against Nuclear Tests.
  
  
• The resolution calls for increasing awareness and education “about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.”
  
  
• The resolution was initiated by Kazakhstan with a view to commemorating the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on 29 August 1991.