Definition of Test ban

1. Noun. A ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons.

Generic synonyms: Ban, Banning, Forbiddance, Forbidding

Lexicographical Neighbors of Test Ban

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tessitura
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test-drive
test-fly
test-paper
test-retest method
test-retest reliability
test-tube baby
test anxiety scale
test ban (current term)
test bed
test bench
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Literary usage of Test ban

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Other Side of the Table: The Soviet Approach to Arms Control by Michael Mandelbaum (1990)
"... POLICY TOWARD A NUCLEAR test ban: 1958-1963 Rebecca Strode Soviet policy in the nuclear test ban negotiations of 1958-1963 was formed at a time of great ..."

2. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"Furthermore, they claim, those facilities might allow DOE scientists to continue designing and testing weapons and circumvent the test ban. ..."

3. The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their by Jan Lodal (2001)
"THE COMPREHENSIVE test ban TREATY The Comprehensive test ban Treaty is supposed to slow the nuclear arms race by making it more difficult for nuclear ..."

4. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons by Sidney David Drell, James E. Goodby (2003)
"Global Norms: The Comprehensive test ban Treaty Another, ... have occurred since the Comprehensive test ban Treaty was opened for signature on September 24, ..."

5. Europe and America Beyond 2000 by Pierre Hassner, Gregory F. Treverton (1990)
"The Reagan administration was the first to express in public a view that previous administrations had held in private: that a comprehensive test ban would ..."

6. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Mr. Averill Harriman was appointed to lead US delegation at nuclear test ban talks in Moscow. 12. Mr. Medgar Even, field secretary of National ..."

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