Stories written by Dennis Francis

The Time to End Nuclear Tests is Now

By Dennis Francis
Today, the General Assembly convenes – for the fifteenth consecutive occasion – to observe the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, which is commemorated annually on 29 August.

Enough is Enough: End Nuclear Testing Once and For All

By Dennis Francis and Robert Floyd
In 2009 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 29 August the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. This date recalled the official closing of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site in today’s Kazakhstan on 29 August 1991; that one site alone having seen 456 nuclear test explosions between 1949 and 1989.
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