What is your point? I am aware of the treaty to ban nuke testing. The question is, did they all decide to stop at once?
Your answer will be something along the lines of "because big boom make bad" or something along the official narrative. Yet, I don't find the official narrative to be any more credible than what some random anon says.
Thus we're back to the original question of "why did they all decide to stop at once?"
1955 was the date of the Soviet test. This test was filmed and released. The CIA was busy lying to congress that the Soviets had hundreds to thousands of nuclear equipped ICBMs to scare the US congress to throw money at the military industrial complex (the soviets only had 3). 1962 was the year of the Cuban missile crisis. The Vietnam War was on going. These events, and poor diplomacy on Kennedy's part in-before 1963 caused a growing public war panic. The US was becoming war hawkish, and Khrushchev's plan to liberalize Soviet culture was being interfered with.
Both nations interpreted each other nuclear tests as capability demonstrations in the same sense as their space programs. Nuclear tests were seen as more as a saber rattle, as thus, cooling these tests down, would cool their populations down. So literally after the Cuban Missile Crisis, they start making moves towards nuclear reduction. Reducing public insight was a first key step.
So my point is that there has been 8 years of mutual political and diplomatic pressure that got everyone to stop at once.
Couple things: 1) Vietnam war was an orchestrated event, started by the US government (namely, the pentagon) 2) the CIA was lying about nukes in general, like you said, to scare the public (and congress) into throwing money at the military--and yet, you believe nukes exist, but that the total number was overblown?
Both nations interpreted each other nuclear tests as capability demonstrations in the same sense as their space programs
. So, the correlation between the two is not a credit to its validity.
So my point is that there has been 8 years of mutual political and diplomatic pressure that got everyone to stop at once.
A bunch of lies and fear propaganda and then everyone decided to stop testing at once? Sounds more like a psyop to me than "we all decided nukes are bad". You just answered the way I predicted you would answer.
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