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| ID Number: | BB19-0204 |
| Description: | Appeal of World Peace Council |
| Country or State: | Soviet Union (USSR or CCCP) |
| Year: | 25.08.1976 |
| Face Value: | 4 Russian kopek |
| Series: | 2nd Stockholm Appeal of World Peace Council |
| Subject/Theme: | Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNET) |
| Perforation: | frame11½ |
| Printing: | Photogravure |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 40 x 28 mm |
| Emission: | 3,800,000 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel SU 4511 Stamp Number SU 4470 Yvert et Tellier SU 4279 Stanley Gibbons SU 4550 Zagorskiy SU 4561 |
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Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (and Protocol Thereto). In preparing the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) in July 1974, the United States and the Soviet Union recognized the need to establish an appropriate agreement to govern underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes (PNEs). There is no essential distinction between the technology of a nuclear explosive device which would be used as a weapon and the technology of a nuclear explosive device used for a peaceful purpose. Negotiations on the PNE agreement contemplated in Article III of the TTBT began in Moscow on October 7, 1974, and after six negotiating sessions over a period of 18 months, resulted in the Treaty on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes in April 1976. The agreement consists of a Treaty, a detailed protocol to the Treaty, and an agreed statement delineating certain important activities which do not constitute a peaceful application as that term is used in the Treaty. |
