In doing so they could jeopardise the whole future of the test ban talks. Discussions have also been delayed by political disagreements and attempts to get round the Treaty by developing other ways of producing new nuclear warheads using computer simulations, much smaller nuclear explosions or tests referred to as hydronuclear experiments. In addition to the five nuclear weapons states, there are also the nuclear arsenals of Israel, India and Pakistan. Israel is thought to have about 200 nuclear weapons, while the status of the nuclear arsenals of India and Pakistan is unknown. As long as the five nuclear weapons states continue to develop more and newer nuclear weapons, several other countries will squander their resources in attempts to join the nuclear club.
Nuclear testing is part of nuclear weapons production and proliferation.
Fifty years after the dawn of the nuclear age, it is time to stop.