Elias sat in the silence of his office. The hum of the terminal seemed louder now. Outside his window, the stars of the station were dull and familiar. He thought of the endless reports of war, the border skirmishes, the tedious repetition of history he filed away every day.
The historical journey toward this declaration began with the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) of 1963, which only banned tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and in space. While a crucial first step, the PTBT left the door wide open for underground testing. Consequently, the nuclear arms race went underground—literally. From the deserts of Nevada to the atolls of the South Pacific, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted over a thousand underground tests, refining warheads to ever-more destructive yields. By the 1990s, the international community declared through the United Nations that this cycle had to end. The result was the CTBT, opened for signature in 1996, which declared a ban on "any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion." cnss declaration
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