International Day against Nuclear Tests in 2024

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2024 Date	August 29, 2024
2025 Date	August 29, 2025

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What time is it? It’s Daily Fella time. Read about potential goings on in Belgorod, Ukraine developing & testing their own ballistic missile & Lavrov waggles the russian nuclear sabre. #DailyFella Show more
— DAILY FELLA (@DailyFellaNews) August 27, 2024

Nuclear testing has had tragic consequences for people and planet. Efforts to stop nuclear tests can and must succeed. More on Thursday's International Day against Show more
— United Nations (@UN) August 29, 2024

This is an actual photograph of a 782-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded June 8, 1962 on Kiritimati island (aka Christmas Island) in the Pacific. Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. This one, code-named Dominic Alma, was a weapons test. A test for a nuclear war. Nuclear war is insane. Nuclear… Show more
— Annie Jacobsen (@AnnieJacobsen) August 28, 2024

UNICORN!! The über rare, brand spanking new US National Nuclear Security Agusta 139, N2314 was doing base-map readings & calibration missions over the LA area today.The “Nuke Sniffer” flys around 500ft of the grnd for readings #AvGeek 08-28-24
— Matt Hartman (@ShorealoneFilms) August 29, 2024

On the 28th Aug, in the lead-up to the International Day Against Nuclear Tests #IDANT on the 29th, we co-organized with @cisp_astana a screening of “I Want to Live On: Untold Stories of the Polygon.” Show more youtube.com I Want To Live On: The Untold Stories of the Polygon. Documentary...
— SGI Office for UN Affairs (@SGI_OUNA) August 29, 2024

On International Day Against Nuclear Tests, I am honored to be in Astana, at the Youth Forum with affected communities to speak on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons & tests. Profoundly moving event. Thanks ⁦ @napf ⁩ for organizing this important forum Show more
— Veronique Christory (@VChristory) August 29, 2024

On the International Day against Nuclear Tests, @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres called the States whose ratification are needed to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. https://un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-08-29/secretary-generals-message-the-international-day-against-nuclear-tests-scroll-down-for-french-version Show more
— ODA (@UN_Disarmament) August 29, 2024

Today is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. On this day in 1949, the Soviet Union conducted the first nuclear test in Kazakhstan. Exactly 42 years later, closed the Semipalatinsk test site. NAPF and our youth initiative Show more Steppe Organization for Peace (STOP) and 5 others
— Nuclear Age Peace Fn (@napf) August 29, 2024

On August 29th, 1949, the first Soviet nuclear test is conducted at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. There were 456 tests there over the next forty years. The effect on the nearby population, which included cancer and higher infant mortality, was covered up until the Cold War ended. Show more
— Today In Socialism (@2dayinsocialism) August 29, 2024

The ground collapses after the «Pliers» underground 10 kt nuclear test conducted at a depth of 238 m at the Nevada Test Site, 27 August 1969.
— NUKES (@atomicarchive) August 27, 2024

International Day against Nuclear Tests in 2024

The International Day against Nuclear Tests seeks to raise awareness about the negative effects of nuclear weapons and the need to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world. The day also serves to educate people everywhere about the need to ban nuclear weapon tests to ensure world safety.